Expression-based identification of genetic determinants of the bacterial symbiosis 'Chlorochromatium aggregatum'

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2259-2276

  Wenter, Roland ^a   Hütz, Katharina ^a   Dibbern, Dörte ^a   Li, Tao ^b,d   Reisinger, Veronika ^a,e   Plöscher, Matthias ^a,f   Eichacker, Lutz ^a,e   Eddie, Brian ^c   Hanson, Thomas ^c   Bryant, Donald A ^b   Overmann, Jörg ^a,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

^f TRION Pharma GmbH   (Germany)

^g LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; PROTEOME; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHLOROBI; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

CHLOROBI; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTEOME; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROCHROMATIUM AGGREGATUM; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 77955242524     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02206.x     Document Type: Article

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