Identification and characterization of a flagellin gene from the endosymbiont of the hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 3129-3133

  Millikan, Deborah S ^b   Felbeck, Horst ^b   Stein, Jeffrey L ^a,b  

^a Quorum Pharmaceutical   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAGELLIN;

BACTERIUM; HYDROTHERMAL VENT COMMUNITY; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LOCOMOTION; SYMBIONT;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; RIFTIA PACHYPTILA; SYMBIOSIS; WORM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PACHYPTILA; PROKARYOTA; RIFTIA PACHYPTILA; VESTIMENTIFERA;

EID: 0032976553     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.7.3129-3133.1999     Document Type: Article

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