The genome and transcriptome of a newly described psychrophilic archaeon, Methanolobus psychrophilus R15, reveal its cold adaptive characteristics

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 633-641

  Chen, Zijuan ^a   Yu, Haiying ^b   Li, Lingyan ^a   Hu, Songnian ^b   Dong, Xiuzhu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; METHANOCOCCOIDES BURTONII; METHANOLOBUS;

EID: 84869217815     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2012.00389.x     Document Type: Article

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