Microbial lifestyle and genome signatures

Current Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 153-162

  Dutta, Chitra ^a   Paul, Sandip ^a,b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Genome islands; Halophiles; Intra amoeba pathogens; Reductive genome evolution; Strand specific codon bias; Thermophiles; Trophic strategies

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BUCHNERA APHIDICOLA; CODON; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; GENETIC TRAIT; HIGH TEMPERATURE; METHANOCALDOCOCCUS JANNASCHII; METHANOTHERMOBACTER THERMAUTOTROPHICUS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NITROGEN UTILIZATION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; PYROBACULUM AEROPHILUM; REVIEW; SALINITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; WIGGLESWORTHIA GLOSSINIDIA;

EID: 84860265013     PISSN: 13892029     EISSN: 18755488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138920212799860698     Document Type: Review

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