Morphology and elemental composition of recent and fossil cyanobacteria

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5906, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-10

  Amand, Ann St ^a   Hoover, Richard B ^b   Jerman, Gregory ^b   Coston, James ^b   Rozanov, Alexei Yu ^c  

^a PhycoTech Inc   (United States)

^b NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c PALEONTOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Calothrix; Cyanobacteria; EDAX; FESEM; Leptolynbya; Lyngbya; Oscillatoria; Planktolynbya

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CELLS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; GEYSERS; MORPHOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CALOTHRIX; CYANOBACTERIA; FESEM; LEPTOLYNBYA; LYNGBYA; OSCILLATORIA; PLANKTOLYNBYA;

BACTERIA;

EID: 29844442504     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.624854     Document Type: Conference Paper

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