Ultrastructural characterization of the prokaryotic symbiosis in "Chlorochromatium aggregation "

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3721-3730

  Wanner, Gerhard ^a   Vogl, Kajetan ^a   Overmann, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHLOROBI; CHLOROCHROMATIUM AGGREGATUM; CYTOPLASM; EPIBIONT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROKARYOTIC CELL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROBI; CHLOROCHROMATIUM; CHLOROCHROMATIUM AGGREGATUM; PROKARYOTA;

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHLOROBI; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 47049126278     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00027-08     Document Type: Article

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