Electron tomography of the nucleoid of gemmata obscuriglobus reveals complex liquid crystalline cholesteric structure

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue SEP, 2012, Pages

  Yee, Benjamin ^a   Sagulenko, Evgeny ^a   Morgan, Garry P ^a   Webb, Richard I ^a   Fuerst, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cholesteric structure; Electron tomography; Gemmata obscuriglobus; Nucleoid; Planctomycetes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875836360     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00326     Document Type: Article

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