A small, dilute-cytoplasm, high-affinity, novel bacterium isolated by extinction culture and having kinetic constants compatible with growth at ambient concentrations of dissolved nutrients in seawater

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 4467-4476

  Button, D K ^a   Robertson, Betsy R ^a   Lepp, Paul W ^b   Schmidt, Thomas M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CYCLOCLASTICUS OLIGOTROPHUS; DNA PURIFICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYCLOCLASTICUS OLIGOTROPHUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; OLIGOTROPHUS; UNCULTURED MARINE BACTERIUM;

EID: 0031765486     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.11.4467-4476.1998     Document Type: Article

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