Gas vesicles in actinomycetes: Old buoys in novel habitats?

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 350-354

  Van Keulen, Geertje ^a,b   Hopwood, David A ^a   Dijkhuizen, Lubbert ^b   Sawers, R Gary ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ACTINOBACTERIA; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL ORGANELLE; FLOTATION; GAS; GENE CLUSTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES HABITAT; STREPTOMYCES;

CYANOBACTERIA; FRANKIA; PROKARYOTA; RHODOCOCCUS; STREPTOMYCES;

EID: 23044489267     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2005.06.006     Document Type: Short Survey

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