The minimal genome - A metabolic and environmental comparison

Briefings in Functional Genomics

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 312-315

  DeWall, Michael Thomas ^a   Cheng, Davis W ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestral life; Geneticmimic; Genome reduction; Minimalgenome; Model organisms; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

ISOLEUCINE; THREONINE; UBIQUINONE;

ARTICLE; AUTOTROPHY; BACTERIAL GENOME; GENE DELETION; HETEROTROPHY; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; OPEN READING FRAME; PELAGIBACTER UBIQUE; PROCHLOROCOCCUS MARINUS; PROTEOBACTERIA; SYMBIONT; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; VESICOMYOSOCIUS OKUTANII;

ENVIRONMENT; GENOME, BACTERIAL; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

CANDIDATUS PELAGIBACTER UBIQUE; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PROCHLOROCOCCUS MARINUS;

EID: 80054975720     PISSN: 20412649     EISSN: 20412657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/elr030     Document Type: Article

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