Hindsight in the relative abundance, metabolic potential and genome dynamics of uncultivated marine archaea from comparative metagenomic analyses of bathypelagic plankton of different oceanic regions

ISME Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 865-886

  Martin Cuadrado, Ana Belen ^a   Rodriguez Valera, Francisco ^a   Moreira, David ^b   Alba, José C ^a   Ivars Martínez, Elena ^a   Henn, Matthew R ^c   Talla, Emmanuel ^d   López García, Purificación ^b  

^a MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Anaerobic respiration; Carbon fixation; GC content; Mutation; N metabolism; Recombination

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRENARCHAEOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA; NITROSOMONADALES; OTUS;

EID: 49449099818     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2008.40     Document Type: Article

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