From green to red: Horizontal gene transfer of the phycoerythrin gene cluster between Planktothrix strains

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 6803-6812

  Tooming Klunderud, Ave ^a   Sogge, Hanne ^a   Rounge, Trine Ballestad ^a,b   Nederbragt, Alexander J ^a   Lagesen, Karin ^a   Glöckner, Gernot ^c,d   Hayes, Paul K ^e   Rohrlack, Thomas ^f,g   Jakobsen, Kjetill S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b CANCER REGISTRY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^f NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^g NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTERIAL STRAINS; FUNCTIONAL GENES; GENE CLUSTERS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PHOTOSYNTHETIC PIGMENTS; SEQUENCE COMPARISONS;

GENE TRANSFER;

GENES;

COLOR; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA; GENE TRANSFER; PEPTIDE; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENT; SPORE;

PHYCOERYTHRIN;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLOR; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; LAKE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NORWAY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLOR; CYANOBACTERIA; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; LAKES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NORWAY; PHENOTYPE; PHYCOERYTHRIN; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84886914970     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01455-13     Document Type: Article

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