The effect of growth and starvation on the lysis of the ruminal cellulolytic bacterium Fibrobacter succinogenes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1342-1346

  Wells, James E ^a   Russell, James B ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOLYSIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; GROWTH RATE; LYSIS; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PROTON MOTIVE FORCE; STARVATION;

EID: 0029974562     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.4.1342-1346.1996     Document Type: Article

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