Genome organization and localization of the pufLM genes of the photosynthesis reaction center in phylogenetically diverse marine Alphaproteobacteria

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 3360-3369

  Pradella, Silke ^a   Allgaier, Martin ^b,c   Hoch, Christa ^b   Päuker, Orsola ^a   Stackebrandt, Erko ^a   Wagner Dobler, Irene ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CELL CULTURE; DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENES; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

ANAEROBIC PHOTOTROPHS; GENOME ORGANIZATION; LINEAR PLASMIDS; PULSED-FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS (PFGE);

MICROBIOLOGY;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; DINOFLAGELLATE; EUKARYOSIS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME SIZE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HYBRIDIZATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PROROCENTRUM LIMA; PUFLM GENE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RHODOBACTER VELDKAMPII; ROSEIVIVAX HALODURANS; ROSEOBACTER LITORALIS; ROSEOVARIUS TOLERANS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STALEYA GUTTIFORMIS; SYMBIOSIS;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOME, BACTERIAL; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; ROSEOBACTER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DINOPHYCEAE; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROROCENTRUM; PROROCENTRUM LIMA; RHODOBACTER LITORALIS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RHODOBACTER VELDKAMPII; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS; ROSEIVIVAX HALODURANS; ROSEOBACTER; ROSEOBACTER LITORALIS; ROSEOVARIUS; ROSEOVARIUS TOLERANS; SILICIBACTER; STALEYA GUTTIFORMIS; SULFITOBACTER;

EID: 2942627192     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.6.3360-3369.2004     Document Type: Article

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