Relationship between the intracellular integrity and the morphology of the capsular envelope in attached and free-living marine bacteria

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 4521-4528

  Heissenberger, Andreas ^a   Leppard, Gary G ^b,c   Herndl, Gerhard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; MARINE BACTERIUM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEMBRANE BINDING; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; PLANKTON; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); UNCULTURED MARINE BACTERIUM;

EID: 0029908525     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.12.4521-4528.1996     Document Type: Article

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