Multiple copies of ammonia monooxygenase (amo) operons have evolved under biased AT/GC mutational pressure in ammonia-oxidizing autotrophic bacteria

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 303-311

  Klotz, Martin G ^a   Norton, Jeanette M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonia monooxygenase; G+C content; Gene duplication; Methylococcus; Nitrosococcus; Nitrosomonas; Nitrosospira; Operon duplication; Particulate methane monooxygenase

Indexed keywords

METHANE MONOOXYGENASE; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GRAM-NEGATIVE CHEMOLITHOTROPHIC BACTERIA; MUTATION; OPERON; OXIDOREDUCTASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AMOA; METHYLOCOCCUS; NITROSOCOCCUS; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOSPIRA;

EID: 0031732063     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00458-3     Document Type: Article

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