Viruses, plasmids and other genetic elements of thermophilic and hyperthermophilic Archaea

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 18, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 225-236

  Zillig, Wolfram ^a   Prangishvilli, David ^a   Schleper, Christa ^b   Elferink, Marieke ^a   Holz, Ingelore ^a   Albers, Sonja ^a   Janekovic, Davorin ^a   Götz, Dorothee ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Archaea, hyperthermophilic; Archaea, thermophilic; Crenarchaeota; Plasmic; Sulfolobales; Thermococcales; Thermoplasmales; Virus

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA BINDING; GRAM NEGATIVE CHEMOLITHOTROPHIC AND METHANE PRODUCING BACTERIA; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; VIRUS;

EID: 0029929098     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0168-6445(96)00014-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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