Description of a new polymer-secreting bacterium from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent, Alteromonas macleodii subsp. fijiensis, and preliminary characterization of the polymer

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 67-73

  Raguenes, Gérard ^a   Pignet, Patricia ^a   Gauthier, Gilles ^b   Peres, Armande ^a   Christen, Richard ^b   Rougeaux, Hélène ^a   Barbier, Georges ^a   Guezennec, Jean ^a  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; GALACTOSE; GALACTURONIC ACID; GLUCOSE; GLUCURONIC ACID; MANNOSE; POLYMER; RIBOSOME RNA;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ALTEROMONAS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA RECOMBINATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RNA SEQUENCE; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0030023234     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.1.67-73.1996     Document Type: Article

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