Temporal separation of cell division and diazotrophy in the marine diazotrophic cyanobacterium Trichodesmium erythraeum IMS101

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 295, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 281-288

  Sandh, Gustaf ^a   El Shehawy, Rehab ^a   Díez, Beatriz ^a   Bergman, Birgitta ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cell division; Cyanobacteria; Diazocyte differentiation; Nitrogen fixation; Trichodesmium

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FTSZ PROTEIN; PROTEIN HETR; PROTEIN NIFH; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL SEPARATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA REPLICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MARINE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRICHODESMIUM ERYTHRAEUM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CULTURE MEDIA; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NITROGEN FIXATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEAWATER;

CYANOBACTERIA; TRICHODESMIUM; TRICHODESMIUM ERYTHRAEUM;

EID: 65649106531     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2009.01608.x     Document Type: Article

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