The nonrandom microheterogeneity of 16S rRNA genes in vibrio splendidus may reflect adaptation to versatile lifestyles

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 294, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 207-215

  Jensen, Sigmund ^a   Frost, Petter ^b,c   Torsvik, Vigdis L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c Intervet Norbio AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Lateral gene transfer (LGT); Microheterogeneity; Phylogeny; Vibrio splendidus

Indexed keywords

HELIX H17; HELIX H6; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; RNA 16S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AQUATIC FLORA; ARTICLE; ASSORTATIVE MATING; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUPLICATE GENE; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE NUMBER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LIFESTYLE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOBACTERIUM; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; RNA TRANSLATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIBRIO; VIBRIO SPLENDIDUS;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; FISH DISEASES; FLOUNDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RIBOSOMES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; VIBRIO; VIBRIO INFECTIONS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COLWELLIA; HIPPOGLOSSUS HIPPOGLOSSUS; PHOTOBACTERIUM; VIBRIO; VIBRIO SPLENDIDUS;

EID: 64549127761     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2009.01567.x     Document Type: Article

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