Gene content and organization of a 281-kbp contig from the genome of the extremely thermophilic archaeon, Sulfolobus solfataricus P2

Genome

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 116-136

  Charlebois, Robert L ^a   Singh, Rama K ^b   Chan Weiher, Christina C Y ^a   Allard, Ghislaine ^a   Chow, Cynthia ^b   Confalonieri, Fabrice ^c   Curtis, Bruce ^b   Duguet, Michel ^c   Erauso, Gael ^d   Faguy, David ^e   Gaasterland, Terry ^f   Garrett, Roger A ^g   Gordon, Paul ^b   Jeffries, Alex C ^b   Kozera, Catherine ^b   Kushwaha, Neena ^a   Lafleur, Édith ^a   Medina, Nadine ^c   Peng, Xu ^g   Penny, Susanne L ^b   She, Qunxin ^g   St Jean, Andrew ^a   Van Der Oost, John ^d   Young, Felix ^a   Zivanovic, Yvan ^c   Doolittle, W Ford ^e   Ragan, Mark A ^b   Sensen, Christoph W ^b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Archaea; Bioinformatics; Comparative genomics; Sulfolobus Genome Project

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTIG; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENOME ORGANIZATION; INTRON; OPERON; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; SULFOLOBUS; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

EID: 0034007992     PISSN: 08312796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/g99-108     Document Type: Article

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