A gas vesiculate planktonic strain of the purple non-sulfur bacterium Rhodoferax antarcticus isolated from lake Fryxell, Dry Valleys, Antarctica

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 182, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 236-243

  Jung, Deborah O ^a   Achenbach, Laurie A ^a   Karr, Elizabeth A ^a,c   Takaichi, Shinichi ^b   Madigan, Michael T ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Gas vesicles; Lake Fryxell; Psychrophily; Purple anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria; Rhodoferax antarcticus

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; RNA 16S;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA PROBE; GENE EXPRESSION; LAKE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURPLE ANOXYGENIC PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PURPLE NON SULFUR BACTERIUM; RHODOFERAX ANTARCTICUS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; COMAMONADACEAE; CYTOPLASMIC VESICLES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FRESH WATER; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOPLANKTON; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PHOTOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHODOFERAX ANTARCTICUS; VIBRIO;

EID: 5444247793     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-004-0719-8     Document Type: Article

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