Patterns and implications of gene gain and loss in the evolution of Prochlorococcus

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2515-2528

  Kettler, Gregory C ^a,b   Martiny, Adam C ^b,g   Huang, Katherine ^b   Zucker, Jeremy ^c   Coleman, Maureen L ^b   Rodrigue, Sebastien ^b   Chen, Feng ^d   Lapidus, Alla ^d   Ferriera, Steven ^e   Johnson, Justin ^e   Steglich, Claudia ^f   Church, George M ^c   Richardson, Paul ^d   Chisholm, Sallie W ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEOME; BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CELL FUNCTION; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTYPE; GENE LOSS; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENOMIC ISLAND; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

PROCHLOROCOCCUS;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PHYLOGENY; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 37749041470     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0030231     Document Type: Article

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