Commensal relationship between a sheath-forming bacterium, sphaerotilus natans, and a sheath-degrading bacterium, paenibacillus sp.

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 458-463

  Takeda, Minoru ^a   Nishiyama, Toshiharu ^a   Nomoto, Shogo ^a   Shinmaru, Sachie ^a   Suzuki, Ichiro ^a   Koizumi, Jun Ichi ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cocultivation; Commensalism; Paenibacillus sp.; Sheath; Sphaerotilus natans

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PAENIBACILLUS; PAENIBACILLUS SP.; SPHAEROTILUS NATANS;

RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACILLUS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0036483508     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: 13476947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.66.458     Document Type: Article

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