Genome sequence of Bacillus cereus and comparative analysis with Bacillus anthracis

Nature

Volumn 423, Issue 6935, 2003, Pages 87-91

  Ivanova, Natalia ^a   Sorokin, Alexei ^b   Anderson, Iain ^a   Galleron, Nathalie ^b   Candelon, Benjamin ^b   Kapatral, Vinayak ^a   Bhattacharyya, Anamitra ^a   Reznik, Gary ^c   Mikhailova, Natalia ^a   Lapidus, Alla ^a   Chu, Lien ^a   Mazur, Michael ^a   Goltsman, Eugene ^a   Larsen, Niels ^a   D'Souza, Mark ^a   Walunas, Theresa ^a   Grechkin, Yuri ^a   Pusch, Gordon ^a   Haselkorn, Robert ^a   Fonstein, Michael ^a   Ehrlich, S Dusko ^b   Overbeek, Ross ^a   Kyrpides, Nikos ^a   more..

^a Integrated Genomics   (United States)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; DISEASE CONTROL; DNA SEQUENCES; GENES; PATHOLOGY;

PATHOGENS; PHYLOGENY;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

BACTERIAL TOXIN;

GENETICS;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIARRHEA; FOOD POISONING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOMITING;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS CEREUS ATCC 14579; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSECTA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0038752612     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01582     Document Type: Article

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