High level of intergenera gene exchange shapes the evolution of haloarchaea in an isolated Antarctic lake

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 42, 2013, Pages 16939-16944

  Demaere, Matthew Z ^a   Williams, Timothy J ^a   Allen, Michelle A ^a   Brown, Mark V ^a   Gibson, John A E ^b   Rich, John ^a   Lauro, Federico M ^a   Dyall Smith, Michael ^c   Davenport, Karen W ^d   Woyke, Tanja ^e   Kyrpides, Nikos C ^e   Tringe, Susannah G ^e   Cavicchioli, Ricardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctic haloarchaea; BJ1 virus; Fragment recruitment; Mobile genetic elements; Saltern

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; ECOTYPE; GENE EXCHANGE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HALOBACTERIALES; HALOBACTERIUM SALINARUM; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; HALOQUADRATUM WALSBYI; LAKE; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFYING SELECTION; REPLICON; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYMPATRY;

ANTARCTIC HALOARCHAEA; BJ1 VIRUS; FRAGMENT RECRUITMENT; MOBILE GENETIC ELEMENTS; SALTERN;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; HALOBACTERIACEAE; LAKES; METAGENOME; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84885831440     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1307090110     Document Type: Article

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