The genome of Sulfolobus acidocaldarius, a model organism of the Crenarchaeota

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 187, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 4992-4999

  Chen, Lanming ^a   Brügger, Kim ^a   Skovgaard, Marie ^b   Redder, Peter ^a   She, Qunxin ^a   Torarinsson, Elfar ^a   Greve, Bo ^a   Awayez, Mariana ^a   Zibat, Arne ^c   Klenk, Hans Peter ^c,d   Garrett, Roger A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c Epidauros Biotechnologie AG   (Germany)

^d egene Biotechnologie GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; OXYGENASE; THERMOPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CARBON SOURCE; CRENARCHAEOTA; DATA BASE; EXCISION REPAIR; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC STABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SULFOLOBUS; SULFOLOBUS ACIDOCALDARIUS; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS; SULFOLOBUS TOKODAII; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, CIRCULAR; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SULFOLOBUS ACIDOCALDARIUS;

ARCHAEA; CRENARCHAEOTA; SULFOLOBUS; SULFOLOBUS ACIDOCALDARIUS; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS; SULFOLOBUS TOKODAII;

EID: 21844477811     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.14.4992-4999.2005     Document Type: Article

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