Isolation, characterization, and diversity of novel radiotolerant carotenoid-producing bacteria

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 892, Issue , 2012, Pages 21-60

  Asker, Dalal ^a,b   Awad, Tarek S ^c   Beppu, Teruhiko ^d   Ueda, Kenji ^d  

^a Alexandria University   (Egypt)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Carotenoids; Diversity; High performance liquid chromatography; HPLC; Irradiation; Misasa; Photodiode array detection; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; RNA 16S;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACILLI; BACTERIAL GENE; DEINOCOCCI; FLAVOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPHINGOBACTERIA; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; BACTERIUM; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLASSIFICATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

BACTERIA; CAROTENOIDS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHYLOGENY; RADIATION TOLERANCE;

EID: 84866281937     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-879-5_3     Document Type: Article

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