Population Genomics of the Facultatively Mutualistic Bacteria Sinorhizobium meliloti and S. medicae

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Epstein, Brendan ^a   Branca, Antoine ^a,e   Mudge, Joann ^b   Bharti, Arvind K ^b   Briskine, Roman ^c   Farmer, Andrew D ^b   Sugawara, Masayuki ^a,f   Young, Nevin D ^a   Sadowsky, Michael J ^a,d   Tiffin, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR GENOME RESOURCES   (United States)

^c University of Minnesota   (United States)

^d BioTechnology Institute   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^f HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FTSW GENE; FTSZ1 GENE; FTSZ2 GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MUTATION RATE; NEIGHBOR JOINING METHOD; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MEDICAE; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; METAGENOMICS; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS;

SINORHIZOBIUM MEDICAE; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 84866148788     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002868     Document Type: Article

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