Forty-five years of developmental biology of photosynthetic bacteria

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 325-352

  Drews, Gerhart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

assembly of light harvesting complexes; bacterial photosynthesis; bioenergetics; cell wall; chlorosomes; chromatophores; cyanobacteria; electron microscopy; intracytoplasmic membranes; light intensity; lipopolysaccharides; membrane differentiation; oxygen tension; peptidoglycan; photophosphorylation; phototaxis; purple bacteria

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA; MELANOGASTER; PHOTOBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 0029910196     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf00029467     Document Type: Review

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