Low species barriers in halophilic archaea and the formation of recombinant hybrids

Current Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 1444-1448

  Naor, Adit ^a   Lapierre, Pascal ^b   Mevarech, Moshe ^a   Papke, R Thane ^b   Gophna, Uri ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HALOFERAX MEDITERRANEI; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; HYBRIDIZATION;

HALOFERAX MEDITERRANEI; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HALOFERAX; HALOFERAX MEDITERRANEI; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84864615070     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.05.056     Document Type: Article

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