Prokaryotic photosynthesis and phototrophy illuminated

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 488-496

  Bryant, Donald A ^a   Frigaard, Niels Ulrik ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIORHODOPSIN;

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL INTERACTION; CHLOROBI; CHLOROFLEXI; CYANOBACTERIUM; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; FIRMICUTES; GENE SEQUENCE; HELICOBACTER; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEOBACTERIA; REVIEW; SULFUR BACTERIUM; SYNECHOCYSTIS;

CHLOROBI; CYANOBACTERIA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; RHODOPSINS, MICROBIAL;

CHLOROBI; CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS); CYANOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; FIRMICUTES; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 33749548848     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2006.09.001     Document Type: Review

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