Comparative genomics of Aeschynomene symbionts: Insights into the ecological lifestyle of nod-independent photosynthetic bradyrhizobia

Genes

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 35-61

  Mornico, Damien ^a,b   Miché, Lucie ^a   Béna, Gilles ^a,c   Nouwen, Nico ^a   Verméglio, André ^d   Vallenet, David ^b   Smith, Alexander A T ^b   Giraud, Eric ^a   Médigue, Claudine ^b   Moulin, Lionel ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SYMBIOSES TROPICALES ET MÉDITERRANÉENNES   (France)

^b Genoscope   (France)

^c FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

^d IRFM   (France)

Author keywords

Aeschynomene; Bradyrhizobium; Genomics; Nod independent; Rhizobia

Indexed keywords

AESCHYNOMENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BRADYRHIZOBIACEAE; CLADISTICS; COMPARATIVE GENOMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMIC ISLAND; GENOMICS; LEGUME; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NOD GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SYMBIOSIS;

BRADYRHIZOBIACEAE; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; PHOTORHIZOBIUM;

EID: 84863367912     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/genes3010035     Document Type: Article

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