Undirected motility of filamentous cyanobacteria produces reticulate mats

Geobiology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 179-190

  Shepard, R N ^a   Sumner, D Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFILM; CYANOBACTERIUM; FILAMENTOUS ALGA; FOSSIL RECORD; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; MORPHOGENESIS; MOTILITY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; STROMATOLITE;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CYANOBACTERIUM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LOCOMOTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

BIOFILMS; CYANOBACTERIA; LOCOMOTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; PSEUDANABAENA;

EID: 77954005815     PISSN: 14724677     EISSN: 14724669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4669.2010.00235.x     Document Type: Article

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