Rhodobacter capsulatus gains a competitive advantage from respiratory nitrate reduction during light-dark transitions

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 941-948

  Ellington, M J K ^a   Richardson, D J ^b   Ferguson, Stuart J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITRATE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRITE;

BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTINUOUS CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HETEROTROPHY; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MICROBIAL RESPIRATION; NITRATE METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION KINETICS; REVIEW; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; SPECIES HABITAT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; DARKNESS; LIGHT; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATE REDUCTASES; NITRATES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PERIPLASM; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHODOBACTER; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 0038664391     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26090-0     Document Type: Review

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