Microbial Consortium Associated with the Antarctic Marine Ciliate Euplotes focardii: An Investigation from Genomic Sequences

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 484-497

  Pucciarelli, Sandra ^a   Devaraj, Raghul Rajan ^a   Mancini, Alessio ^a   Ballarini, Patrizia ^a   Castelli, Michele ^b   Schrallhammer, Martina ^c   Petroni, Giulio ^b   Miceli, Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antifreeze proteins; Bacteroidetes; Catabolism; Gene transfer; Proteobacteria; Psychrophile

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; CILIOPHORA; EUPLOTES FOCARDII; FRANCISELLA; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

ADAPTATION; ANTARCTICA; EUPLOTES; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; PROCEDURES;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; EUPLOTES; GENOMICS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA;

EID: 84937253095     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-015-0568-9     Document Type: Article

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