Archaeal biofilms: The great unexplored

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue , 2013, Pages 337-354

  Orell, Alvaro ^a   Fröls, Sabrina ^b   Albers, Sonja Verena ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Archaea; Crenarchaeota; Euryarchaeota; Exopolysaccharides; Surface structures; Type IV pili

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BIOFILM; BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; DESICCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FLAGELLUM; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; IRRADIATION; METHANOCALDOCOCCUS; METHANOGENIC ARCHAEON; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS; PYRODICTIUM; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ARCHAEAL;

EID: 84884522686     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: 15453251     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-micro-092412-155616     Document Type: Article

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