Horizontal transfer of the photosynthesis gene cluster and operon rearrangement in purple bacteria

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 333-341

  Igarashi, Naoki ^a   Harada, Jiro ^a   Nagashima, Sakiko ^a   Matsuura, Katsumi ^a   Shimada, Keizo ^a   Nagashima, Kenji V P ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Horizontal gene transfer; Photosynthesis gene cluster; Phylogenetic tree; Purple bacteria; Rubrivivax gelatinosus; Superoperon

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL; CAROTENOID;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GENE CLUSTER; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGION; RUBRIVIVAX GELATINOSUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GENE;

NEGIBACTERIA; PHOTOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; RUBRIVIVAX GELATINOSUS;

EID: 0035045707     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002390010163     Document Type: Article

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