Complete genome of Candidatus Chloracidobacterium thermophilum, a chlorophyll-based photoheterotroph belonging to the phylum Acidobacteria

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 177-190

  Garcia Costas, Amaya M ^a,c   Liu, Zhenfeng ^a   Tomsho, Lynn P ^a   Schuster, Stephan C ^a   Ward, David M ^b   Bryant, Donald A ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY BILLINGS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL; BRANCHED CHAIN AMINO ACID; MULTIENZYME COMPLEX;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; THERMAL SPRING;

ACIDOBACTERIA; AMINO ACIDS, BRANCHED-CHAIN; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLLS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT CHAIN COMPLEX PROTEINS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HOT SPRINGS; METAGENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY;

ACIDOBACTERIA; THERMOPHILUM;

EID: 84855283899     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02592.x     Document Type: Article

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