Comparative analysis of acidobacterial genomic fragments from terrestrial and aquatic metagenomic libraries, with emphasis on acidobacteria subdivision

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 6769-6777

  Kielak, Anna M ^a   Veen, Johannes A Van ^a,b   Kowalchuk, George A ^a,c  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; C CONTENTS; COMMON FEATURES; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; GENE ANNOTATION; GENE ORGANIZATION; GENOMIC FRAGMENTS; GENOMIC INFORMATION; GENOMIC REGIONS; HOMOLOGOUS GENES; HYPOTHETICAL PROTEIN; MARINE SEDIMENTS; METAGENOMIC LIBRARIES; OPEN READING FRAME; SOIL HABITATS; SYNTENY; SYNTHETASES;

BACTERIOLOGY; BIOCHEMISTRY; RECOVERY; RNA; SOILS; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

GENE ENCODING;

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; MARINE SEDIMENT; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN; SOIL MICROORGANISM; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SYNTENY;

BACTERIA; BASE COMPOSITION; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SYNTENY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ACIDOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VERRUCOMICROBIA SUBDIVISION 6;

EID: 77958521829     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00343-10     Document Type: Article

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