The genome of Polaromonas naphthalenivorans strain CJ2, isolated from coal tar-contaminated sediment, reveals physiological and metabolic versatility and evolution through extensive horizontal gene transfer

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2253-2270

  Yagi, Jane M ^a   Sims, David ^b   Brettin, Thomas ^b   Bruce, David ^c   Madsen, Eugene L ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAL TAR; NAPHTHALENE; NAPHTHALENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOREMEDIATION; CHEMISTRY; COMAMONADACEAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SEDIMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOIL POLLUTANT;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; COAL TAR; COMAMONADACEAE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NAPHTHALENES; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BURKHOLDERIACEAE; COMAMONADACEAE; POLAROMONAS; POLAROMONAS NAPHTHALENIVORANS;

EID: 69949092042     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.01947.x     Document Type: Article

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