The genome of a motile marine Synechococcus

Nature

Volumn 424, Issue 6952, 2003, Pages 1037-1042

  Palenik, B ^a   Brahamsha, B ^a   Larimer, F W ^b,c   Land, M ^b,c   Hauser, L ^b,c   Chain, P ^c,d   Lamerdin, J ^c,d   Regala, W ^c,d   Allen, E E ^a,h   McCarren, J ^a   Paulsen, I ^e   Dufresne, A ^f   Partensky, F ^f   Webb, E A ^g   Waterbury, J ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f STATION BIOLOGIQUE   (France)

^g WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIXATION;

BIOMASS; CARBON; COBALT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; NICKEL; SURFACES;

GENES;

ABC TRANSPORTER; CHLOROPHYLL; GENOMIC DNA; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; RNA POLYMERASE; SIGMA FACTOR; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

CYANOBACTERIUM; GENOME; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CHROMOSOME; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE TRANSFER; GENOME; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; VIROLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; PROKARYOTA; SYNECHOCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS SP.;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE COMPOSITION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CYANOBACTERIA; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0041876235     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01943     Document Type: Article

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