Occurrence of virus-like particles in the Dead Sea

Extremophiles

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 143-149

  Oren, Aharon ^a   Bratbak, Gunnar ^b   Heldal, Mikal ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Archaea; Dead Sea; Halophilic; Hypersaline; Virus like particles

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE EAST; SEA; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIRUS;

MIDDLE EAST; OCEANS AND SEAS; VIRUSES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 0031196664     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007920050027     Document Type: Article

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