Close interspecies interactions between prokaryotes from sulfureous environments

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue JULY, 2011, Pages

  Müller, Johannes ^a,b   Overmann, Jörg ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chlorochromatium aggregatum; Green sulfur bacteria; Ignicoccus; Phototrophic consortia; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHLOROBI; CHLOROCHROMATIUM AGGREGATUM; IGNICOCCUS; NANOARCHAEUM EQUITANS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84859913019     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2011.00146     Document Type: Review

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