Genomic determinants of sporulation in Bacilli and Clostridia: Towards the minimal set of sporulation-specific genes

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2870-2890

  Galperin, Michael Y ^a   Mekhedov, Sergei L ^a   Puigbo, Pere ^a   Smirnov, Sergey ^a   Wolf, Yuri I ^a   Rigden, Daniel J ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL SPORE; CLOSTRIDIUM; GENETICS; GENOME SIZE; GENOMICS; PHYLOGENY;

BACILLUS; CLOSTRIDIUM; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME SIZE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

BACILLACEAE; BACILLI (CLASS); BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIA; FIRMICUTES; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84867988931     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2012.02841.x     Document Type: Article

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