Evolutionary relationships among photosynthetic prokaryotes (Heliobacterium chlorum, Chloroflexus aurantiacus, cyanobacteria, Chlorobium tepidum and proteobacteria): Implications regarding the origin of photosynthesis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 893-906

  Gupta, Radhey S ^a   Mukhtar, Tarlq ^a   Singh, Bhag ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,4 BENZOQUINONE; PHEOPHYTIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHLAMYDIA; CHLOROBIUM; CYANOBACTERIUM; DEINOCOCCACEAE; EVOLUTION; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLEXIBACTERACEAE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIROCHAETA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; CHAPERONIN 60; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AQUIFEX; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA; CHLOROBACULUM TEPIDUM; CHLOROBIUM; CHLOROFLEXUS AURANTIACUS; CYANOBACTERIA; CYTOPHAGA; DEINOCOCCACEAE; FLAVOBACTERIA; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLEXIBACTERACEAE; HELIOBACTERIACEAE; HELIOBACTERIUM CHLORUM; NEGIBACTERIA; PHOTOBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA; SPIROCHAETA;

EID: 0033030130     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01417.x     Document Type: Article

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