Response to Cowan: The upper temperature for life - Where do we draw the line?

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 60-62

  Kashefi, Kazem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCLAVE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOGENESIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEATING; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PASTEURIZATION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROBACULUM AEROPHILUM; PYROCOCCUS; PYRODICTIUM OCCULTUM; PYROLOBUS FUMARII; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER VAPOR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PYROBACULUM; PYROBACULUM AEROPHILUM; PYROCOCCUS; PYRODICTIUM OCCULTUM; PYROLOBUS FUMARII;

EID: 0842324772     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2003.12.006     Document Type: Short Survey

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