Metabolic capacity of Bacillus cereus strains ATCC 14579 and ATCC 10987 interlinked with comparative genomics

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2933-2944

  Mols, Maarten ^a,b   De Been, Mark ^a,b,c   Zwietering, Marcel H ^b   Moezelaar, Roy ^a,b   Abee, Tjakko ^a,b  

^a TOP INSTITUTE FOOD AND NUTRITION   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HEAT SHOCK RESPONSE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 35948957452     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01404.x     Document Type: Article

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