Phylogenetic analysis of bacterial isolates from man-made high-pH, high-salt environments and identification of gene-cassette-associated open reading frames

Current Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 487-492

  Ghauri, Muhammad A ^a,b   Khalid, Ahmad M ^a   Grant, Susan ^b   Grant, William D ^b   Heaphy, Shaun ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY AND GENETIC ENGINEERING NIBGE   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CARBONIC ACID; GENOMIC DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; URANIUM;

ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CASSETTE; GENE SEQUENCE; HALOMONAS; HALOMONAS MAGADIENSIS; INTEGRON; KENYA; LAKE; LEACHING; LEATHER INDUSTRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PAKISTAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALINITY; THERMAL SPRING; VIRGIBACILLUS HALODENITRIFICANS; YANIA FLAVA;

ALKALIES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; HOT SPRINGS; INTEGRONS; MINING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SALINE SOLUTION, HYPERTONIC; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HALOMONAS; HALOMONAS MAGADIENSIS; VIRGIBACILLUS HALODENITRIFICANS; YANIA FLAVA;

EID: 33744799157     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-005-0488-x     Document Type: Article

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