Implications of rRNA operon copy number and ribosome content in the marine oligotrophic ultramicrobacterium Sphingomonas sp. strain RB2256

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 4433-4438

  Fegatella, Fitri ^a   Lim, Julianne ^a   Kjelleberg, Staffan ^a   Cavicchioli, Ricardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH RATE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RNA REPLICATION; SPHINGOMONAS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; SPHINGOMONAS; SPHINGOMONAS SP.; VIBRIO;

EID: 0031734090     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.11.4433-4438.1998     Document Type: Article

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