Halotaxis of cyanobacteria in an intertidal hypersaline microbial mat

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 567-575

  Kohls, Katharina ^a   Abed, Raeid M M ^a,b   Polerecky, Lubos ^a   Weber, Miriam ^a,c   de Beer, Dirk ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^c HYDRA Institute for Marine Sciences   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; CELL MOTION; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GENETICS; LIGHT; MICROBIOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SALINITY; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

CELL MOVEMENT; CYANOBACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; LIGHT; OXYGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SALINITY; SEAWATER; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

CYANOBACTERIA; MICROCOLEUS CHTHONOPLASTES;

EID: 77953934809     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.02095.x     Document Type: Article

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