High abundance of novel environmental chlamydiae in a Tyrrhenian coastal lake (Lago di Paola, Italy)

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 446-452

  Pizzetti, Ilaria ^a,b   Fazi, Stefano ^b   Fuchs, Bernhard M ^a   Amann, Rudolf ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b WATER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOEBA (GENUS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIACEAE; CHLAMYDIAE; CHLAMYDIALES; EUKARYOTA; PLANCTOMYCETES; PROTISTA;

EID: 84864022626     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2012.00361.x     Document Type: Article

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