Porphyrobacter tepidarius sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic aerobic photosynthetic bacterium isolated from a hot spring

International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 408-413

  Hanada, Satoshi ^a,d   Kawase, Yoshie ^a   Hiraishi, Akira ^b   Takaichi, Shinichi ^c   Matsuura, Katsumi ^a   Shimada, Keizo ^a   Nagashima, Kenji V P ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^d NATL INST BIOSCI HUM TECHNOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CELL STRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PORPHYROBACTER TEPRIDARIUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; THERMAL SPRING; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

PORPHYROBACTER TEPIDARIUS;

EID: 0030899617     PISSN: 00207713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00207713-47-2-408     Document Type: Article

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