Travels of a Pseudomonas, from Japan around the world

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 782-786

  Nakazawa, Teruko ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL 2,3 DIOXYGENASE; DIOXYGENASE; OXYGENASE;

CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EDITORIAL; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; JAPAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

CATECHOL 2,3-DIOXYGENASE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIOXYGENASES; JAPAN; MICROBIOLOGY; OXYGENASES; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 0036933237     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.2002.00310.x     Document Type: Editorial

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