Higher tRNA diversity in thermophilic bacteria: A possible adaptation to growth at high temperature

Microbiological Research

Volumn 165, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 609-616

  Satapathy, Siddhartha Sankar ^a   Dutta, Malay ^a   Ray, Suvendra Kumar ^a  

^a TEZPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Evolution; Genome GC ; Thermal adaptation; Transfer RNA

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; EVOLUTION; GENOME GC%; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MOLECULAR FEATURE; MOLECULAR LEVELS; OPTIMUM GROWTH TEMPERATURE; THERMAL ADAPTATION; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIA; TRANSFER RNA; TRNA GENES;

BACTERIOLOGY; BIOLOGY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GENES; GROWTH TEMPERATURE; RNA;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIAL RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ADAPTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GROWTH RESPONSE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEAT; METABOLISM;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; BACTERIA; BASE COMPOSITION; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIATION; HOT TEMPERATURE; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, TRANSFER; SELECTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 78049417357     PISSN: 09445013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micres.2009.12.003     Document Type: Article

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