Viral clones from the GOS expedition with an unusual photosystem-I gene cassette organization

ISME Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1617-1620

  Béjá, Oded ^a   Fridman, Svetlana ^a   Glaser, Fabian ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

cyanobacteria; phage; photosystem I; Prochlorococcus; Synechococcus

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; CLONE; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENOME; GLOBAL CHANGE; OXYGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; VIRUS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CLASSIFICATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; PHOTOSYSTEM I; PHYLOGENY; SEA; TRAVEL; VIRUS GENE;

BACTERIOPHAGES; CYANOBACTERIA; EXPEDITIONS; GENE ORDER; GENES, VIRAL; METAGENOME; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHOTOSYSTEM I PROTEIN COMPLEX; PHYLOGENY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

CYANOBACTERIA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 84863986834     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2012.23     Document Type: Article

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