Putative novel photosynthetic reaction centre organizations in marine aerobic anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria: Insights from metagenomics and environmental genomics

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2027-2033

  Yutin, Natalya ^a   Béjà, Oded ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; PEROXIDE; UREA; UREA PEROXIDE;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGY; DRUG COMBINATION; GENETICS; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OPERON; PATHOGENICITY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AEROBIOSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DRUG COMBINATIONS; GENES, BACTERIAL; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MARINE BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PEROXIDES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; UREA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PHOTOBACTERIA; RHODOBACTER; ROSEOBACTER; UNCULTURED BACTERIUM;

EID: 28644449137     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.00843.x     Document Type: Article

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