Membrane-bounded nucleoids in microbial symbionts of marine sponges

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 29-34

  Fuerst, John A ^a   Webb, Richard I ^a   Garson, Mary J ^a   Hardy, Lani ^a   Reiswig, Henry M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Archaeon; Bacterium; Nucleoid; Sponge; Symbiont

Indexed keywords

GLUTARALDEHYDE; OSMIUM TETRAOXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; MEMBRANE BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES; SPONGE; SYMBIOSIS;

ASTROSCLERA; AXINYSSA; CENARCHAEUM SYMBIOSUM; JASPIS; PSEUDOCERATINA; STROMATOSPONGIA;

EID: 0031657345     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00307-3     Document Type: Article

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