Chemotaxis of Marinobacter adhaerens and its impact on attachmentto the diatom Thalassiosira weissflogii

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 6900-6907

  Sonnenschein, Eva C ^a,d   Syit, Desalegne Abebew ^a   Grossart, Hans Peter ^b,c   Ullrich, Matthias S ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC SURFACES; AGGREGATE FORMATION; AQUATIC SYSTEM; BACTERIAL CELLS; BACTERIAL CHEMOTAXIS; BILATERAL MODEL; BIOFILM FORMATION; CARBON CYCLING; CELL HOMOGENATE; CO-CULTURES; DIATOM CULTURES; GENE CLUSTERS; GENOME SEQUENCES; HISTIDINE KINASE; IN-DEPTH KNOWLEDGE; INTERSPECIES INTERACTIONS; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MARINOBACTER; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE SIMILARITY; SOFT AGAR; WILD TYPES;

AGGREGATES; ALGAE; AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIA; CELL CULTURE; CELLS; ECOSYSTEMS; GENES;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

BACTERIUM; CARBON CYCLE; CHEMOTAXONOMY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIATOM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLAGELLATE; GENOME; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MOTILITY; MUTATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; NUTRIENT CYCLING; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CHEMOTAXIS; DIATOM; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; LOCOMOTION; MARINOBACTER; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; CHEMOTAXIS; DIATOMS; GENE DELETION; LOCOMOTION; MARINOBACTER; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MARINOBACTER; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; THALASSIOSIRA WEISSFLOGII;

EID: 84868318336     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01790-12     Document Type: Article

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