Diazotrophy under continuous light in a marine unicellular diazotrophic cyanobacterium, Gloeothece sp. 68DGA

Microbiology

Volumn 154, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1859-1865

  Taniuchi, Yukiko ^a,c   Yoshikawa, Shinya ^a   Maeda, Shin Ichi ^b   Omata, Tatsuo ^b   Ohki, Kaori ^a  

^a FUKUI PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLENE; IRON; NITROGEN; NITROGENASE; OXYGEN;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL CULTURE; CELL DENSITY; CELL GROWTH; CELL RESPIRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GLOEOTHECE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MARINE BACTERIUM; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYANOBACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LIGHT; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGENASE; OXYGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SEAWATER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CYANOBACTERIA; GLOEOTHECE; GLOEOTHECE SP.;

EID: 51149098290     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2008/018689-0     Document Type: Article

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