A small and compact genome in the marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus marinus CCMP 1375: Lack of an intron in the gene for tRNA(Leu)(UAA) and a single copy of the rRNA operon

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 261-266

  Strehl, Britta ^a   Holtzendorff, Julia ^a   Partensky, Frédéric ^b   Hess, Wolfgang R ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b STATION BIOLOGIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Genome analysis; Picophytoplankton; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE TRANSFER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; EVOLUTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RNA ANALYSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CYANOBACTERIA; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EVOLUTION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, TRANSFER, LEU;

EID: 0032726707     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00548-0     Document Type: Article

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