Bacillus subtilis attachment to Aspergillus niger hyphae results in mutually altered metabolism

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2099-2113

  Benoit, Isabelle ^a,b,c   van den Esker, Marielle H ^d   Patyshakuliyeva, Aleksandrina ^a,b   Mattern, Derek J ^e,f   Blei, Felix ^f   Zhou, Miaomiao ^a,b   Dijksterhuis, Jan ^a   Brakhage, Axel A ^e,f   Kuipers, Oscar P ^c,d   de Vries, Ronald P ^a,b,c   Kovács, Ákos T ^d,f  

^a CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e HANS KNÖLL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^f FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BACILLI (CLASS); BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

CYCLOPEPTIDE; LIPOPEPTIDE; SURFACTIN PEPTIDE;

ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; COCULTURE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RHIZOSPHERE; SYMBIOSIS;

ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; ENERGY METABOLISM; HYPHAE; LIPOPEPTIDES; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; RHIZOSPHERE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84931571611     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12564     Document Type: Article

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