Adaptation of salt-tolerant Myxococcus strains and their motility systems to the ocean conditions

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 43-51

  Wang, Bing ^a   Hu, Wei ^a   Liu, Hong ^a   Zhang, Cui Ying ^a   Zhao, Jing Yi ^a   Jiang, De Ming ^a   Wu, Zhi Hong ^a   Li, Yue Zhong ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SPORE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MORPHOGENESIS; MYXOCOCCUS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; MYXOCOCCUS; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYLOGENY; SEAWATER; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

MYXOCOCCALES; MYXOCOCCUS;

EID: 34447136300     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-006-9169-y     Document Type: Article

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