Solutes determine the temperature windows for microbial survival and growth

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 7835-7840

  Chin, Jason P ^a   Megaw, Julianne ^a   Magill, Caroline L ^a   Nowotarski, Krzysztof ^a   Williams, Jim P ^a   Bhaganna, Prashanth ^a   Linton, Mark ^b   Patterson, Margaret F ^b   Underwood, Graham J C ^c   Mswaka, Allen Y ^a   Hallsworth, John E ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biosphere function; Chaotropic agents; Fungal ecology and limits of life; Osmotic stress; Psychrophilic bacteria

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHAOTROPIC AGENT; FUNGUS; LOW TEMPERATURE; MACROMOLECULE; METABOLITE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MICROCLIMATE; NONHUMAN; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPROTROPH; SOLUTE; SPOROGENESIS; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

EID: 77952375222     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1000557107     Document Type: Article

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