Single-cell analysis reveals a novel uncultivated magnetotactic bacterium within the candidate division OP3

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1709-1721

  Kolinko, Sebastian ^a   Jogler, Christian ^a,c   Katzmann, Emanuel ^a   Wanner, Gerhard ^a   Peplies, Jörg ^b   Schüler, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b RIBOCON GMBH   (Germany)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERUMOXYTOL; RNA 16S; RNA 23S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; GERMANY; LAKE; MAGNETOSOME; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE; SEDIMENT; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BACTERIA; FERUMOXYTOL; GENES, RRNA; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GERMANY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LAKES; MAGNETOSOMES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSPIRAE; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84855480998     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02609.x     Document Type: Article

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