Complex microbiome underlying secondary and primary metabolism in the tunicate-Prochloron symbiosis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 51, 2011, Pages

  Donia, Mohamed S ^a,g   Fricke, W Florian ^b   Partensky, Frédéric ^c,d   Cox, James ^a   Elshahawi, Sherif I ^e   White, James R ^b   Phillippy, Adam M ^b,h   Schatz, Michael C ^b,i   Piel, Joern ^f   Haygood, Margo G ^e   Ravel, Jacques ^b   Schmidt, Eric W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c STATION BIOLOGIQUE   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^g San Francisco   (United States)

^h National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center   (United States)

ⁱ Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

Ascidian; Metagenomics; Natural products; Photosynthesis

Indexed keywords

BIOFUEL; DRUG METABOLITE; NATURAL PRODUCT; PATELLAZOLE; STEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; LIPID COMPOSITION; LISSOCLINUM PATELLA; METAGENOME; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; MICROBIOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRIENT; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCHLORON; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STEROL SYNTHESIS; SYMBIOSIS; UROCHORDATA;

ANIMALS; GENOME; GENOMICS; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PROCHLORON; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS; UROCHORDATA;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISSOCLINUM PATELLA; PROCHLORON; PROCHLORON DIDEMNI; UNCULTURED CYANOBACTERIUM; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 84855492367     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1111712108     Document Type: Article

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