Diurnal expression of hetR and diazocyte development in the filamentous non-heterocystous cyanobacterium Trichodesmium erythraeum

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1139-1146

  El Shehawy, R ^a,d   Lugomela, C ^b   Ernst, A ^c   Bergman, Birgitta ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; NITROGENASE; PROTEIN HETR; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; TRICHODESMIUM ERYTHREUM; TRICHOME;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CYANOBACTERIA; FLUORESCENT DYES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; OXIDOREDUCTASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; TRICHODESMIUM; TRICHODESMIUM ERYTHRAEUM;

EID: 0037516741     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26170-0     Document Type: Review

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