Genomics of Actinobacteria: Tracing the evolutionary history of an ancient phylum

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 495-548

  Ventura, Marco ^a   Canchaya, Carlos ^b   Tauch, Andreas ^c   Chandra, Govind ^d   Fitzgerald, Gerald F ^b   Chater, Keith F ^d   Van Sinderen, Douwe ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450; PREBIOTIC AGENT;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BIFIDOBACTERIACEAE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM EFFICIENS; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM JEIKEIUM; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FRANKIA; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; LEIFSONIA; LEIFSONIA XYLI; LIPOPHILICITY; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA FARCINICA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLUM; PROPIONIBACTERIUM; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; REVIEW; STREPTOMYCES; TAXONOMY; THERMOBIFIDA; TRANSPOSON; TROPHERYMA; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; MICROCOCCACEAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM; NOCARDIA; PHYLOGENY; PROPIONIBACTERIACEAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ACTINOBACTERIA;

EID: 34548746905     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.00005-07     Document Type: Review

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