A korarchaeal genome reveals insights into the evolution of the Archaea

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 8102-8107

  Elkins, James G ^a,b   Podar, Mircea ^b   Graham, David E ^c   Makarova, Kira S ^d   Wolf, Yuri ^d   Randau, Lennart ^e   Hedlund, Brian P ^f   Brochier Armanet, Céline ^g   Kunin, Victor ^h   Anderson, Iain ^h   Lapidus, Alla ^h   Goltsman, Eugene ^h   Barry, Kerrie ^h   Koonin, Eugene V ^d   Hugenholtz, Phil ^h   Kyrpides, Nikos ^h   Wanner, Gerhard ⁱ   Richardson, Paul ^h   Keller, Martin ^b   Stetter, Karl O ^a,j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^g AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^h DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Author keywords

Genomics; Hyperthermophiles; Korarchaeota; Microbial cultivation; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COENZYME A; CONTIG; GENE PRODUCT; PURINE DERIVATIVE; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CELL DIVISION; CRENARCHAEOTA; DNA REPLICATION; ENERGY; EURYARCHAEOTA; FERMENTATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; KORARCHAEOTA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNTHESIS; CELL CYCLE; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENERGY METABOLISM; EVOLUTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOME; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ARCHAEA; CRENARCHAEOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA; KORARCHAEOTA;

CELL CYCLE; DNA REPLICATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; KORARCHAEOTA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 45849112155     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0801980105     Document Type: Article

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