Intragenomic heterogeneity and intergenomic recombination among haloarchaeal rRNA genes

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 3980-3990

  Boucher, Yan ^a   Douady, Christophe J ^b   Sharma, Adrian K ^a   Kamekura, Masahiro ^c   Doolittle, W Ford ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c Noda Institute for Scientific Research   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HALOARCULA; HALOBACTERIUM; HALOPHILIC BACTERIUM; HALOSIMPLEX CARLSBADENSE; NATRINEMA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TAXONOMY;

BASE SEQUENCE; GENES, RRNA; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; HALOBACTERIACEAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RRNA OPERON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HALOARCULA; HALOBACTERIALES; HALOBACTERIUM; HALOPHILIC ARCHAEON; HALOSIMPLEX CARLSBADENSE; NATRINEMA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 2942545812     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.12.3980-3990.2004     Document Type: Article

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