Effect of exogenous extracellular polysaccharides on the desiccation and freezing tolerance of rock-inhabiting phototrophic microorganisms

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 261-270

  Knowles, Emily J ^a   Castenholz, Richard W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Desiccation and freezing tolerance; Endolithic; Epilithic; Extracellular polysaccharides; Green algae

Indexed keywords

POLYSACCHARIDE;

DESICCATION; ENDOLITHON; EPILITHON; FREEZE TOLERANCE; GREEN ALGA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHOTOAUTOTROPHY; POLYSACCHARIDE; ROCK;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHLORELLA; CHROOCOCCIDIOPSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DESICCATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FREEZING TOLERANCE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; NOSTOC; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOTROPH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; VITAL STAIN;

CHLORELLA; CHLOROPHYLL; CYANOBACTERIA; DESICCATION; ECOSYSTEM; FLUORESCENT DYES; FREEZING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOSTOC; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PHOTOTROPHIC PROCESSES; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CHLORELLA SP.; CHLOROPHYTA; CHROOCOCCIDIOPSIS; CYANOBACTERIA; NOSTOC SP.;

EID: 53949102225     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2008.00568.x     Document Type: Article

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