Novel metabolic attributes of the genus Cyanothece, comprising a group of unicellular nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria

mBio

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Bandyopadhyay, Anindita ^a   Elvitigala, Thanura ^a   Welsh, Eric ^b   Stöckel, Jana ^a   Liberton, Michelle ^a   Min, Hongtao ^c   Sherman, Louis A ^c   Pakrasi, Himadri B ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; NITROGENASE;

ADAPTATION; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; CYANOTHECE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOSS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TERRESTRIAL SURFACE WATERS;

CYANOBACTERIA; CYANOTHECE; CYANOTHECE SP. ATCC 51142;

EID: 80455158427     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00214-11     Document Type: Article

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