Molecular characterization of the symbionts associated with marine nematodes of the genus Robbea

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 136-144

  Bayer, Christoph ^a   Heindl, Niels R ^a   Rinke, Christian ^a   Lücker, Sebastian ^a   Ott, Joerg A ^a   Bulgheresi, Silvia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNELIDA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESMODORIDAE; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; LAXUS ONEISTUS; NEMATODA; OLIGOCHAETA (METAZOA); ROBBEA; STILBONEMATINAE;

EID: 77955302385     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2009.00019.x     Document Type: Article

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