Genomics and genetics of Sulfolobus islandicus LAL14/1, a model hyperthermophilic archaeon

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Volumn 3, Issue APR, 2013, Pages

  Jaubert, Carole ^a   Danioux, Chloë ^a   Oberto, Jacques ^b   Cortez, Diego ^a,f   Bize, Ariane ^c   Krupovic, Mart ^a   She, Qunxin ^d   Forterre, Patrick ^a,b   Prangishvili, David ^a   Sezonov, Guennadi ^a,e  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Archaea; CRISPR; Genetics; Genome analysis; Sulfolobus islandicus LAL14 1

Indexed keywords

ANTITOXIN; TOXIN; TRANSFER RNA; TRANSPOSON;

ARCHAEAL GENE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; SULFOLOBUS; TRANSPOSON; ARTICLE;

ANTITOXINS; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENOMICS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; REPLICATION ORIGIN; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFOLOBUS; TOXINS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84877765697     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsob.130010     Document Type: Article

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