Horizontal transfer of the nitrogen fixation gene cluster in the cyanobacterium Microcoleus chthonoplastes

ISME Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 121-130

  Bolhuis, Henk ^a   Severin, Ina ^a   Confurius Guns, Veronique ^a   Wollenzien, Ute I A ^a   Stal, Lucas J ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Horizontal gene transfer; Microbial mat; Microcoleus; Nitrogen fixation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; NITROGENASE REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYANOBACTERIUM; DESULFOVIBRIO; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYNTENY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYANOBACTERIA; DESULFOVIBRIO; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE ORDER; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYNTENY;

CYANOBACTERIA; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DESULFOVIBRIO; MICROCOLEUS; MICROCOLEUS CHTHONOPLASTES; MICROCOLEUS CHTHONOPLASTES PCC 7420;

EID: 73449136317     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2009.99     Document Type: Article

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