Think big - Giant genes in bacteria

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 768-777

  Reva, Oleg ^a   Tümmler, Burkhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; CODON; GENETICS;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CODON; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROBI; CHLOROBIUM; CHLOROBIUM CHLOROCHROMATII; CYANOBACTERIA; EURYARCHAEOTA; FIRMICUTES; PLANCTOMYCETES; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA; THERMOTOGAE; THERMOTOGAE (CLASS);

EID: 38549158363     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01500.x     Document Type: Article

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