Construction of an artificial symbiotic community using a Chlorella-symbiont association as a model

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 273-282

  Imase, Masato ^a   Watanabe, Keiji ^b   Aoyagi, Hideki ^a   Tanaka, Hideo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b Ibaraki Prefectural Kasumigaura Environmental Science Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Chlorella; Divalent cation; Polysaccharide; Sheath; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHLORIDE; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROPIONIC ACID;

ADHESION; BACTERIUM; GROWTH; MICROORGANISM; PHOTOAUTOTROPHY; POLYSACCHARIDE; SYMBIOSIS;

ARTICLE; CHLORELLA; CHLORELLA SOROKINIANA; FLOCCULATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMBIONT;

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CHLORELLA; CULTURE MEDIA; FLOCCULATION; POLYSACCHARIDES; PROPIONATES; SYMBIOSIS; WATER PURIFICATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLORELLA SOROKINIANA;

EID: 38849165838     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2007.00434.x     Document Type: Article

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