Widespread metabolic potential for nitrite and nitrate assimilation among Prochlorococcus ecotypes

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

Volumn 106, Issue 26, 2009, Pages 10787-10792

  Martiny, Adam C ^a   Kathuria, Satish ^a   Berube, Paul M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Metagenomics; narB; nirA; Nitrogen cycle

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; NITRATE; NITRITE; SURFACE WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; ECOTYPE; GENETIC CODE; GENOMIC ISLAND; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE COMPOSITION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MARINE BIOLOGY; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATES; NITRITE REDUCTASES; NITRITES; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; PHYLOGENY; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEAWATER; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

CYANOBACTERIA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 67649770505     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0902532106     Document Type: Article

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