The moderately halophilic bacterium Halomonas maura is a free-living diazotroph

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 244, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 69-74

  Argandoña, Montserrat ^a   Fernández Carazo, Rafael ^a   Llamas, Inmaculada ^a   Martínez Checa, Fernando ^a   Caba, Juan Manuel ^a   Quesada, Emilia ^a   Del Moral, Ana ^a  

^a Facultad de Farmacia   (Spain)

Author keywords

Diazotroph; Halomonas maura; Halophilic bacteria; Nitrogen fixation

Indexed keywords

EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MAURAN; NITROGEN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HALOMONAS; HALOMONAS MAURA; HALOPHILIC BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALINITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HALOMONAS MAURA; MAURA;

EID: 13844310177     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2005.01.019     Document Type: Article

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