LuxA gene of light organ symbionts of the bioluminescent fish Acropoma japonicum (Acropomatidae) and Siphamia versicolor (Apogonidae) forms a lineage closely related to that of Photobacterium leiognathi ssp. mandapamensis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 260, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 186-192

  Wada, Minoru ^a   Kamiya, Akiko ^a,f   Uchiyama, Nami ^a   Yoshizawa, Susumu ^a   Kita Tsukamoto, Kumiko ^a   Ikejima, Kou ^b   Yu, Reiko ^c   Imada, Chiaki ^d   Karatani, Hajime ^e   Mizuno, Naoki ^a   Suzuki, Yuzuru ^a   Nishida, Mutsumi ^a   Kogure, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

^c Palace Chemical Co Ltd   (Japan)

^d TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Luciferase genes; Photobacterium leiognathi; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

ACROPOMA JAPONICUM; ACROPOMATIDAE; APOGONIDAE; ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; FISH; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LUXA GENE; LUXF GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOBACTERIUM LEIOGNATHI; PHOTOBACTERIUM MANDAPAMENSIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIPHAMIA VERSICOLOR; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; LIGHT; LUCIFERASES; LUMINESCENCE; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PERCIFORMES; PHOTOBACTERIUM; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

ACROPOMA JAPONICUM; ACROPOMATIDAE; APOGONIDAE; PHOTOBACTERIUM LEIOGNATHI; PISCES; SIPHAMIA;

EID: 33745583856     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2006.00322.x     Document Type: Article

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