Site-Specific Mobilization of Vinyl Chloride Respiration Islands by a Mechanism Common in Dehalococcoides

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  McMurdie, Paul J ^a   Hug, Laura A ^b   Edwards, Elizabeth A ^b   Holmes, Susan ^c   Spormann, Alfred M ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; VINYL CHLORIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RNA 16S; TMRNA;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOMIC ISLAND; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RDHA GENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SSRA GENE; SYNTENY; CHEMISTRY; CHLOROFLEXI; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; WATER POLLUTANT;

DEHALOCOCCOIDES;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHLOROFLEXI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; OPERON; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VINYL CHLORIDE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 79957817494     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-287     Document Type: Article

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