Sulfolobus islandicus plasmids pRN1 and pRN2 share distant but common evolutionary ancestry

Extremophiles

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 391-393

  Keeling, Patrick J ^a,d   Klenk, Hans Peter ^a,e   Singh, Rama K ^b   Schenk, Margret E ^a   Sensen, Christoph W ^b   Zillig, Wolfram ^c   Ford Doolittle, W ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Archaea; Archaebacteria; Plasmid; Sulfolobus; Thermophile

Indexed keywords

PLASMID;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, ARCHAEAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; SULFOLOBUS;

ARCHAEA; SULFOLOBUS; SULFOLOBUS ISLANDICUS; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0032211967     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007920050083     Document Type: Article

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