Response of the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides to iron limitation and the role of a Fur orthologue in this response

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 397-404

  Peuser, Verena ^a   Metz, Sebastian ^a   Klug, Gabriele ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; PHOTOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

EID: 79955977759     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2011.00245.x     Document Type: Article

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