Genomic analysis of "Elusimicrobium minutum" the first cultivated representative of the phylum "Elusimicrobia" (formerly termite group 1)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2841-2849

  Herlemann, D P R ^a   Geissinger, O ^a   Ikeda Ohtsubo, W ^a   Kunin, V ^b   Sun, H ^b   Lapidus, A ^b   Hugenholtz, P ^b   Brune, A ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA SEQUENCES; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; CELL ENVELOPES; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; COMPLETE GENOMES; DEGRADATION PATHWAYS; ELECTRON MICROGRAPH; GENES ENCODING; GENOME ENCODES; GENOMIC ANALYSIS; HYDROGENASES; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MARKER GENES; NONRIBOSOMAL PEPTIDE; OXYGEN STRESS; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL DATA; PHYSIOLOGICAL TRAIT; POLYKETIDE SYNTHESIS; SECRETION SYSTEMS; TRANSAMINATION REACTION; TYPE II;

AMINES; BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; BIOCHEMISTRY; OXYGEN; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYSACCHARIDES; SUGAR (SUCROSE); SUGARS;

GENES;

ALANINE; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; HYDROGENASE; OXYGEN; PEPTIDE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; POLYKETIDE; RNA 16S; SUGAR; BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIUM; BEETLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FERMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; LARVA; METABOLISM; PEPTIDE; PHYSIOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; RNA; SECRETION; TERMITE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTERIUM PILUS; BEETLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CELL SECRETION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELUSIMICROBIUM MINUTUM; FERMENTATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME ANALYSIS; GRAM NEGATIVE ANAEROBIC BACTERIA; IMPERIUM; INTESTINE; ISOPTERA; LARVA; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; NONRIBOSOMAL PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLUM; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSAMINATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COLEOPTERA; ISOPTERA; NEGIBACTERIA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE ORDER; GENOME, BACTERIAL; ISOPTERA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 65549153499     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02698-08     Document Type: Article

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