Coastal Synechococcus metagenome reveals major roles for horizontal gene transfer and plasmids in population diversity

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 349-359

  Palenik, B ^a   Ren, Q ^b   Tai, V ^a   Paulsen, I T ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CODON; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; SEDIMENT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SYNECHOCOCCUS; UNITED STATES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CALIFORNIA; CODON; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

CYANOBACTERIA; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 58549087183     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01772.x     Document Type: Article

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