Distinct, ecotype-specific genome and proteome signatures in the marine cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Paul, Sandip ^a   Dutta, Anirban ^a   Bag, Sumit K ^a,b   Das, Sabyasachi ^a,c   Dutta, Chitra ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY   (India)

^b CSIR NATIONAL BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEOME; BACTERIAL DNA; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOTHECE; ECOTYPE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRAMELLA FORSETII; HYDROPHOBICITY; ISOELECTRIC POINT; MARINE BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NOSTOC; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; PROCHLOROCOCCUS MARINUS; PROTEIN CONTENT; SPECIES COMPARISON; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS; SYNECHOCYSTIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

CYANOBACTERIA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; PROCHLOROCOCCUS MARINUS;

BASE COMPOSITION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, INTERGENIC; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; PROTEOME; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 77949441084     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-103     Document Type: Article

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