Comparative genomics provides evidence for the 3-hydroxypropionate autotrophic pathway in filamentous anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria and in hot spring microbial mats

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2067-2078

  Klatt, Christian G ^a   Bryant, Donald A ^b   Ward, David M ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUTOTROPHY; CHLOROFLEXI; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; GENOMICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHOTOTROPHY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THERMAL SPRING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AUTOTROPHIC PROCESSES; CHLOROFLEXI; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENOMICS; HOT SPRINGS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTOTROPHIC PROCESSES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

CHLOROFLEXACEAE; CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS); CHLOROFLEXUS; CHLOROFLEXUS AGGREGANS; CHLOROFLEXUS AURANTIACUS; CYANOBACTERIA; HERPETOSIPHON; HERPETOSIPHON AURANTIACUS; PHOTOBACTERIA; ROSEIFLEXUS; ROSEIFLEXUS CASTENHOLZII;

EID: 34447321098     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01323.x     Document Type: Article

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