Chemical cues: Why basic peptides are signal molecules in marine environments

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1410-1417

  Decho, Alan W ^a   Browne, Kenneth A ^b   Zimmer Faust, Richard K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; ARGININE; BACTERIUM; BASIC PEPTIDE; BIOFILM; GLYCINE; GLYCYLARGININE; GLYCYLGLYCINE; GLYCYLGLYCYLARGININE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LARVA; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; OYSTER; SIGNAL MOLECULE;

BACTERIUM; CHEMICAL CUE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PEPTIDE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); OSTREIDAE;

EID: 0031774586     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1998.43.7.1410     Document Type: Article

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