Marine cyanophages: Tinkering with the electron transport chain

ISME Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1568-1570

  Philosof, Alon ^a   Battchikova, Natalia ^b   Aro, Eva Mari ^b   Béjà, Oded ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXIDOREDUCTASE; SEA WATER;

BACTERIOPHAGE; CYANOBACTERIUM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GENETICS; METAGENOME; NOTE; PHOTOSYSTEM I; PHOTOSYSTEM II; SYNECHOCOCCUS; VIROLOGY;

BACTERIOPHAGES; CYANOBACTERIA; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; METAGENOME; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHOTOSYSTEM I PROTEIN COMPLEX; PHOTOSYSTEM II PROTEIN COMPLEX; SEAWATER; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 80052961823     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2011.43     Document Type: Note

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