A new environment for aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria: Biological soil crusts

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 651-656

  Csotonyi, Julius T ^a   Swiderski, Jolantha ^b   Stackebrandt, Erko ^b   Yurkov, Vladimir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRYOPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; METHYLOBACTERIUM; MURICOCCUS; PHOTOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; SPHINGOMONAS;

EID: 78649704872     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2010.00151.x     Document Type: Article

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