Phylum Verrucomicrobia representatives share a compartmentalized cell plan with members of bacterial phylum Planctomycetes

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Lee, Kuo Chang ^a   Webb, Richard I ^a   Janssen, Peter H ^b   Sangwan, Parveen ^c   Romeo, Tony ^d   Staley, James T ^e   Fuerst, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b AGRESEARCH GRASSLANDS   (New Zealand)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPLASM; GENETICS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RIBOSOME; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BACTERIA; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; CYTOPLASM; DNA, BACTERIAL; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PHYLOGENY; RIBOSOMES;

EID: 61949150134     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-9-5     Document Type: Article

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