RecD function is required for high-pressure growth of a deep-sea bacterium

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 2330-2337

  Bidle, Kelly A ^b   Bartlett, Douglas H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOBACTERIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PHOTOBACTERIUM; PHOTOBACTERIUM PROFUNDUM; PHRAGMITES; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032939636     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.8.2330-2337.1999     Document Type: Article

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