Frequent genetic recombination in natural populations of the marine cyanobacterium Microcoleus chthonoplastes

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 434-442

  Lodders, Nicole ^a,b   Stackebrandt, Erko ^a   Nübel, Ulrich ^a,c  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^c ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTERIA; MICROCOLEUS CHTHONOPLASTES;

EID: 14344252773     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.00730.x     Document Type: Article

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