Ultrastructure of the acidophilic aerobic photosynthetic bacterium Acidiphilium rubrum

Current Microbiology

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 398-401

  Matsuzawa, Yukiko ^a   Kanbe, Toshio ^b   Suzuki, Jiro ^a   Hiraishi, Akira ^a  

^a TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPHYLL A; IRON; POLYPHOSPHATE; ZINC;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ACIDIPHILIUM; AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ACIDIPHILIUM; ACIDIPHILIUM RUBRUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PHOTOBACTERIA;

EID: 0034041742     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002840010077     Document Type: Article

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