Phylogenetic analyses indicate independent recruitment of diverse gene cassettes during assemblage of the 2,4-D catabolic pathway

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 373-382

  Vallaeys, Tatiana ^a   Courde, Laurent ^a   Mc Gowan, Catherine ^b   Wright, Alice D ^b,d   Fulthorpe, Roberta R ^c  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ketoglutarate dependent dioxygenase; 2,4 Dichlorophenolhydroxylase; 2,4 Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid; Dichloro catechol dioxygenase; Diversity; DNA slippage; Gene recruitment; Phylogeny; Recombination; TfdA gene; TfdB gene; TfdC gene

Indexed keywords

2,4 DICHLOROPHENOL; 2,4 DICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; 3 CHLOROBENZOIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BURKHOLDERIA; CATABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CASSETTE; GENE SEQUENCE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPHINGOMONAS; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

ALCALIGENES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA SP.; RALSTONIA; SPHINGOMONAS SP.; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

EID: 0033037330     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6496(98)00123-8     Document Type: Article

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