Comparative genomic analysis of magnetotactic bacteria from the Deltaproteobacteria provides new insights into magnetite and greigite magnetosome genes required for magnetotaxis

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2712-2735

  Lefèvre, Christopher T ^a   Trubitsyn, Denis ^b   Abreu, Fernanda ^c   Kolinko, Sebastian ^d   Jogler, Christian ^e   de Almeida, Luiz Gonzaga Paula ^f   de Vasconcelos, Ana Tereza R ^f   Kube, Michael ^g,h   Reinhardt, Richard ⁱ   Lins, Ulysses ^c   Pignol, David ^a   Schüler, Dirk ^d   Bazylinski, Dennis A ^b   Ginet, Nicolas ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

^f LABORATÓRIO NACIONAL DE COMPUTAÇÃO CIENTÍFICA   (Brazil)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^h HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

ⁱ Max Planck Genome Centre Cologne   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; MAGNETOSPIRILLUM; NITROSPIRAE; PROKARYOTA;

GREIGITE; IRON; MAGNETITE; SULFIDE;

BACTERIAL GENOME; CLASSIFICATION; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENETICS; MAGNETISM; MAGNETOSOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; FERROSOFERRIC OXIDE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; IRON; MAGNETICS; MAGNETOSOMES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; SULFIDES;

EID: 84885189434     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12128     Document Type: Article

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