Failure to recover Bacillus thuringiensis from the Lutzow-Holm Bay region of Antarctica

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 49-51

  Wasano, N ^a   Imura, S ^b   Ohba, M ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC BACTERIA; ALGAE; BACILLUS CEREUS;

AEROBIC SPORE-FORMING BACTERIA; ANTARCTICA; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BLUE GREEN ALGAE; COASTAL AREA; FLOATING MATS; MICROFLORAE; SOIL SAMPLE; SUB-CONTINENTS; THURINGIENSIS;

BACTERIOLOGY;

BACTERIUM; BIOGEOGRAPHY; POLAR REGION;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLUE GREEN ALGA; NONHUMAN; PLANT; SEASHORE; SOIL;

ANTARCTICA; LUTZOW-HOLM BAY;

ALGAE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; UNCULTURED CYANOBACTERIUM;

EID: 0032892041     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1472-765X.1999.00471.x     Document Type: Article

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