Environmental Genome Shotgun Sequencing of the Sargasso Sea

Science

Volumn 304, Issue 5667, 2004, Pages 66-74

  Venter, J Craig ^a   Remington, Karin ^a   Heidelberg, John F ^c   Halpern, Aaron L ^b   Rusch, Doug ^b   Eisen, Jonathan A ^c   Wu, Dongying ^c   Paulsen, Ian ^c   Nelson, Karen E ^c   Nelson, William ^c   Fouts, Derrick E ^c   Levy, Samuel ^b   Knap, Anthony H ^f   Lomas, Michael W ^f   Nealson, Ken ^e   White, Owen ^c   Peterson, Jeremy ^c   Hoffman, Jeff ^a   Parsons, Rachel ^f   Baden Tillson, Holly ^a   Pfannkoch, Cynthia ^a   Rogers, Yu Hui ^d   Smith, Hamilton O ^a   more..

^a Inst for Biol Energy Alternatives   (United States)

^b Ctr for the Advancement of Genomics   (United States)

^c J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d J Craig Venter Science Foundation Joint Technology Center   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f St George's GE 01   (Bermuda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; FILTERS (FOR FLUIDS); GENETIC ENGINEERING; SEAWATER; STOICHIOMETRY;

MICROBIAL DIVERSITY;

GENES;

RHODOPSIN; SEA WATER; PROTEORHODOPSIN;

GENOME; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MICROORGANISM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BERMUDA; ENVIRONMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STOICHIOMETRY; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLASMID; RNA GENE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; SARGASSO SEA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ARCHAEA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIA; BACTERIOPHAGES; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CYANOBACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, RRNA; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; RHODOPSIN; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 11144354360     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1093857     Document Type: Article

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