Ferrichrome utilization in a mesorhizobial population: Microevolution of a three-locus system

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2923-2932

  Carlton, Timothy M ^a,b   Sullivan, John T ^a   Stuart, Gabriella S ^a   Hutt, Karla ^a,c   Lamont, Iain L ^a   Ronson, Clive W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FERRICHROME; IRON; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FERRICHROME; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; IRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

MESORHIZOBIUM; MESORHIZOBIUM LOTI;

EID: 35948941257     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01402.x     Document Type: Article

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