Molecular Markers for Photosynthetic Bacteria and Insights into the Origin and Spread of Photosynthesis

Advances in Botanical Research

Volumn 66, Issue , 2013, Pages 37-66

  Gupta, Radhey S ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

BchB; BchL; BchN; BchX; Chlorobi; Chloroflexi taxonomy; Clade C Cyanobacteria; Conserved signature indels; Heliobacteriaceae; Lateral gene transfers; NifH; Proteobacteria; Signature proteins

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875149851     PISSN: 00652296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-397923-0.00002-3     Document Type: Chapter

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