Archaea - Timeline of the third domain

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 51-61

  Cavicchioli, Ricardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; BACTERIORHODOPSIN; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; HALORHODOPSIN; INITIATION FACTOR; PYRROLYSINE; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARCHAEAL VIRUS; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; CARBON DIOXIDE FIXATION; CRENARCHAEOTA; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROPORATION; EVOLUTION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HYPERTHERMOPHILE; KORARCHAEOTA; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARKER GENE; METAGENOMICS; METHANOCOCCUS JANNASCHII; METHANOGENESIS; METHYLOMONAS METHANICA; NANOARCHAEOTA; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; SULFOLOBUS ACIDOCALDARIUS; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS; THERMOPHILE; THERMOPLASMA;

AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; ARCHAEA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ARCHAEAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 78650295170     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2482     Document Type: Review

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