True Chemotaxis in Oxygen Gradients of the Sulfur-Oxidizing Bacterium Thiovulum majus

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 3299-3303

  Thar, Roland ^a   Fenchel, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; SULFUR;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMOTAXIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG EFFECT; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

CHEMOTAXIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; SULFUR;

EID: 0035405912     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.7.3299-3303.2001     Document Type: Article

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