Large-scale genetic variation of the symbiosis-required megaplasmid pSymA revealed by comparative genomic analysis of Sinorhizobium meliloti natural strains

BMC Genomics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Giuntini, Elisa ^a   Mengoni, Alessio ^a   De Filippo, Carlotta ^a   Cavalieri, Duccio ^a   Aubin Horth, Nadia ^b   Landry, Christian R ^c   Becker, Anke ^d   Bazzicalupo, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; TRANSPOSASE; BACTERIAL DNA;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESERT; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; ITALY; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; SEA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SOIL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMBIOSIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME MAP; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; GENOME; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FABACEAE; MEDICAGO SATIVA; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 27944466762     PISSN: 14712164     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-6-158     Document Type: Article

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