How do cyanobacteria sense and respond to light?

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 965-971

  Mullineaux, Conrad W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHYTOCHROME;

BACTERIAL GENE; CHROMATOPHORE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; LIGHT; NONHUMAN; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOTAXIS; PHYCOBILISOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CYANOBACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LIGHT; PHOTORECEPTORS, MICROBIAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; SYNECHOCYSTIS; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP.; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP. PCC 6803;

EID: 0035788620     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02569.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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