Haloquadratum walsbyi: Limited Diversity in a Global Pond

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Dyall Smith, Mike L ^a,d   Pfeiffer, Friedhelm ^a   Klee, Kathrin ^a,e   Palm, Peter ^a   Gross, Karin ^b   Schuster, Stephan C ^c   Rampp, Markus ^b   Oesterhelt, Dieter ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PLASMAPHYSIK   (Germany)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HALOQUADRATUM WALSBYI; INDEL MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; SYNTENY; ARCHAEAL GENOME; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HALOBACTERIALES; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

HALOBACTERIA; HALOQUADRATUM WALSBYI;

RNA 16S;

GENOME, ARCHAEAL; HALOBACTERIACEAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 79959307357     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020968     Document Type: Article

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