Comparative analysis of a genome fragment of an uncultivated mesopelagic crenarchaeote reveals multiple horizontal gene transfers

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 19-34

  López García, Purificación ^a   Brochier, Céline ^b   Moreira, David ^a   Rodríguez Valera, Francisco ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME; CRENARCHAEOTA; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE ORDER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY;

CHROMOSOMES, ARCHAEAL; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRENARCHAEOTA; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; GENE ORDER; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, ARCHAEAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ARCHAEA; CENARCHAEUM SYMBIOSUM; CRENARCHAEOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA; METHANOSARCINALES; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 17644441088     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.2003.00533.x     Document Type: Article

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