The Stack: A New Bacterial Structure Analyzed in the Antarctic Bacterium Pseudomonas deceptionensis M1T by Transmission Electron Microscopy and Tomography

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Delgado, Lidia ^a   Carrión, Ornella ^a   Martínez, Gema ^a   López Iglesias, Carmen ^a   Mercadé, Elena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; MICROMORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS DECEPTIONENSIS; STACK; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; FREEZE FRACTURING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PSEUDOMONAS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84883645129     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073297     Document Type: Article

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