Functional equivalence and evolutionary convergence in complex communities of microbial sponge symbionts

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

Volumn 109, Issue 27, 2012, Pages

  Fan, Lu ^a   Reynolds, David ^a   Liu, Michael ^a   Stark, Manuel ^b   Kjelleberg, Staffan ^a,c   Webster, Nicole S ^d   Thomas, Torsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Convergent evolution; Eukaryotic like proteins; Metagenomics; Nitrogen metabolism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; GENOMICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOME; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONGE (PORIFERA); SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BACTERIOPHAGES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CYANOBACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC VARIATION; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; NITROGEN; PHYLOGENY; PORIFERA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SYMBIOSIS;

EUKARYOTA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84862998261     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1203287109     Document Type: Article

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