Sequence of the hyperplastic genome of the naturally competent Thermus scotoductus SA-01

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Gounder, Kamini ^a   Brzuszkiewicz, Elzbieta ^b   Liesegang, Heiko ^b   Wollherr, Antje ^b   Daniel, Rolf ^b   Gottschalk, Gerhard ^b   Reva, Oleg ^c   Kumwenda, Benjamin ^c   Srivastava, Malay ^a   Bricio, Carlos ^d   Berenguer, José ^d   van Heerden, Esta ^a   Litthauer, Derek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^d CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; BACTERIAL DNA;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEINOCOCCUS; DENITRIFICATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HYPERTHERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; MEIOTHERMUS RUBER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PLASMID; PYROSEQUENCING; SYNTENY; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; THERMUS; THERMUS SCOTODUCTUS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; ADAPTATION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

DEINOCOCCUS-THERMUS; MEIOTHERMUS RUBER; THERMALES; THERMUS; THERMUS SCOTODUCTUS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYNTENY; THERMUS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 82055163989     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-577     Document Type: Article

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