Insight into the evolution of magnetotaxis in Magnetospirillum spp., based on mam gene phylogeny

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 7238-7248

  Lefèvre, Christopher T ^a,b   Schmidt, Marian L ^b,d   Viloria, Nathan ^b   Trubitsyn, Denis ^b   Schüler, Dirk ^c   Bazylinski, Dennis A ^b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA; 16S RRNA GENE SEQUENCE; 5-BISPHOSPHATE; AXENIC CULTURE; CHAIN FORMATION; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENTS; GENE SEQUENCES; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MAGNETOTACTIC BACTERIA; PARTIAL SEQUENCES;

BIOLOGY; GENE TRANSFER; RNA; WATER;

GENES;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GENE TRANSFER; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LOCOMOTION; MAGNETISM; MAGNETOSPIRILLUM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; LOCOMOTION; MAGNETICS; MAGNETOSPIRILLUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

UNITED STATES;

MAGNETOSPIRILLUM;

EID: 84868371548     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01951-12     Document Type: Article

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