Cryopreservation of a Myovirus Infecting the Toxin-Producing Cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 297-299

  Takashima, Yukari ^a   Yoshida, Takashi ^a   Kashima, Aki ^a   Hiroishi, Shingo ^a   Nagasaki, Keizo ^b  

^a FUKUI PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

cryopreservation; cyanobacteria; cyanophage; Microcystis aeruginosa

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979893422     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.22.297     Document Type: Article

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