Isolation and characterization of a magnetotactic bacterial culture from the Mediterranean Sea

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1646-1657

  Lefèvre, Christopher T ^a   Bernadac, Alain ^b   Yu Zhang, Kui ^c   Pradel, Nathalie ^a   Wu, Long Fei ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; OXYGEN; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHEMOTAXIS; CLASSIFICATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOLOGY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FLAGELLUM; GENETICS; LOCOMOTION; MAGNETISM; MAGNETOSOME; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; OPERON; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEOBACTERIA; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RNA GENE;

CHEMOTAXIS; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FLAGELLA; GENES, RRNA; LOCOMOTION; MAGNETICS; MAGNETOSOMES; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MICROSCOPY; OPERON; OXYGEN; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEAWATER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAGNETOCOCCUS SP. MC-1; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 67149095570     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.01887.x     Document Type: Article

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