Analysis of two marine metagenomes reveals the diversity of plasmids in oceanic environments

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 453-466

  Ma, Yingfei ^a,c   Paulsen, Ian T ^b   Palenik, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; DNA REPLICATION; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEA; UNITED STATES;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIODIVERSITY; CALIFORNIA; DNA REPLICATION; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC VARIATION; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEAWATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 84856566415     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02633.x     Document Type: Article

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