Genomic heterogeneity in a natural archaeal population suggests a model of tRNA gene disruption

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Sugahara, Junichi ^a   Fujishima, Kosuke ^a   Nunoura, Takuro ^b   Takaki, Yoshihiro ^b   Takami, Hideto ^b   Takai, Ken ^b   Tomita, Masaru ^a   Kanai, Akio ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA RECOMBINASE; RECOMBINASE; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARCHAEAL RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARCHAEAL GENE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CALDIARCHAEUM SUBTERRANEUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PROMOTER REGION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON; ARCHAEON; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ARCHAEA;

ARCHAEA; BASE SEQUENCE; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENETIC LOCI; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 84857703908     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032504     Document Type: Article

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