Community structure and metabolism through reconstruction of microbial genomes from the environment

Nature

Volumn 428, Issue 6978, 2004, Pages 37-43

  Tyson, Gene W ^a   Chapman, Jarrod ^a,b   Hugenholtz, Philip ^a   Allen, Eric E ^a   Ram, Rachna J ^a   Richardson, Paul M ^b   Solovyev, Victor V ^b   Rubin, Edward M ^b   Rokhsar, Daniel S ^a,b   Banfield, Jillian F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFILMS; CARBON; DNA; ECOSYSTEMS; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; GENES; MICROORGANISMS; NITROGEN FIXATION;

GENOMIC REARRANGEMENTS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES;

MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL DNA; CARBON; RNA 16S;

GENOME; MICROORGANISM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; CARBON FIXATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY YIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FERROPLASMA; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; LEPTOSPIRILLUM; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MICROFLORA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CLASSIFICATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FERROPLASMA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; LEPTOSPIRILLUM;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOFILMS; CARBON; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN FIXATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 1542377296     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02340     Document Type: Article

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