Diversity of 16S rRNA genes within individual prokaryotic genomes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3886-3897

  Pei, Anna Y ^a   Oberdorf, William E ^b   Nossa, Carlos W ^b   Agarwal, Ankush ^b   Chokshi, Pooja ^c   Gerz, Erika A ^b   Jin, Zhida ^b   Lee, Peng ^b   Yang, Living ^b   Poles, Michael ^b   Brown, Stuart M ^a   Sotero, Steven ^a   DeSantis, Todd ^e   Brodie, Eoin ^e   Nelson, Karen ^f   Pei, Zhiheng ^b,d  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA; 16S RRNA GENE; BACTERIAL SPECIES; GENBANK DATABASE; NUMBER OF SPECIES; OPERATIONAL DEFINITION; PROKARYOTIC GENOMES; RRNA GENES; SEQUENCE DIVERSITY;

CONSTRAINT THEORY; RNA;

GENES;

RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; DATABASE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENOME; PARAMETERIZATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

ARCHAEAL GENOME; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; RNA GENE;

GENES, RRNA; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS PROTOCHLAMYDIA AMOEBOPHILA; HALOARCULA MARISMORTUI; PROKARYOTA; THERMOANAEROBACTER; THERMOANAEROBACTER TENGCONGENSIS;

EID: 77953646161     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02953-09     Document Type: Article

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