Genome sequence of Haloplasma contractile, an unusual contractile bacterium from a deep-sea anoxic brine lake

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 4551-4552

  Antunes, André ^a   Alam, Intikhab ^a   El Dorry, Hamza ^b   Siam, Rania ^b   Robertson, Anthony ^a   Bajic, Vladimir B ^a   Stingl, Ulrich ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b The American University in Cairo   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DEEP SEA; GENE SEQUENCE; HALOPLASMA CONTRACTILE; LAKE; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA; GENE DOSAGE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FIRMICUTES; MOLLICUTES;

EID: 80052316367     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.05461-11     Document Type: Note

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