Microbial Adaptations to the Psychrosphere/Piezosphere

Journal of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 93-100

  Bartlett, Douglas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FATTY ACID; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHOTOBACTERIUM; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; REVIEW;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FATTY ACIDS; GENES, BACTERIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTOBACTERIUM; PRESSURE;

EID: 0033171046     PISSN: 14641801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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