Morphological and metabolic responses to starvation by the dissimilatory metal-reducing bacterium Shewanella alga BrY

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 4678-4682

  Caccavo Jr , Frank ^a   Ramsing, Niels Birger ^b   Costerton, J William ^a  

^a Idaho National Laboratory   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CHROMIC ACID; COBALT; EDETIC ACID; METAL; NITROGEN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; SHEWANELLA; STARVATION;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SHEWANELLA; SHEWANELLA ALGAE;

EID: 10544227754     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.12.4678-4682.1996     Document Type: Article

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