Environmental genomics of "Haloquadratum walsbyi" in a saltern crystallizer indicates a large pool of accessory genes in an otherwise coherent species

BMC Genomics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Legault, Boris A ^a,b   Lopez Lopez, Arantxa ^a   Alba Casado, Jose Carlos ^a   Doolittle, W Ford ^c   Bolhuis, Henk ^d   Rodriguez Valera, Francisco ^a   Papke, R Thane ^c  

^a MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^b Universite de Montreal   (Canada)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIOPHAGE DNA; CYTOSINE; GUANINE;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOMASS CONVERSION; CELL LINEAGE; DNA CONTENT; DNA LIBRARY; DNA TRANSPOSITION; ECOLOGICAL GENETICS; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE POOL; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HALOPHILIC BACTERIUM; HALOQUADRATUM WALSBYI; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MICROFLORA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POND; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SALINITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES CULTIVATION;

BASE COMPOSITION; CHROMOSOMES, ARCHAEAL; DNA, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC LIBRARY; GENOMICS; HALOBACTERIACEAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPAIN; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ARCHAEA; HALOQUADRATUM WALSBYI;

EID: 33748299286     PISSN: 14712164     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-7-171     Document Type: Article

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