Dead Sea rhodopsins revisited

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 617-621

  Bodaker, Idan ^a   Suzuki, Marcelino T ^b,c   Oren, Aharon ^d   Béjà, Oded ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE ARAGO   (France)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HALOBACTERIA; HALOBACTERIALES; HALOBACTERIUM SALINARUM; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84869209143     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2012.00377.x     Document Type: Article

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