The diversity of gas vesicle genes in Planktothrix rubescens from Lake Zurich

Microbiology

Volumn 145, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2757-2768

  Beard, S J ^a   Handley, B A ^a   Hayes, P K ^a   Walsby, A E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cyanobacterial genetics; Gas vesicles; Planktothrix rubescens

Indexed keywords

PHYCOCYANIN; PHYCOERYTHRIN; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; RNA 16S;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE CLUSTER; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PLANKTOTHRIX RUBESCENS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SWITZERLAND;

OSCILLATORIA AGARDHII; PLANKTOTHRIX RUBESCENS;

EID: 0032824141     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-145-10-2757     Document Type: Article

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