Genomic analysis reveals key aspects of prokaryotic symbiosis in the phototrophic consortium " Chlorochromatium aggregatum"

Genome Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Liu, Zhenfeng ^a,g   Müller, Johannes ^b   Li, Tao ^a,h   Alvey, Richard M ^a,i   Vogl, Kajetan ^a   Frigaard, Niels Ulrik ^c   Rockwell, Nathan C ^d   Boyd, Eric S ^e   Tomsho, Lynn P ^a   Schuster, Stephan C ^a   Henke, Petra ^b   Rohde, Manfred ^f   Overmann, Jörg ^b   Bryant, Donald A ^a,e  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

ⁱ CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CANDIDATUS SYMBIOBACTER MOBILIS; CELL ADHESION; CHLOROBI; CHLOROBIUM CHLOROCHROMATII; CHLOROCHROMATIUM AGGREGATUM; ENERGY TRANSFER; GENE LOSS; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SYMBIOSIS; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; PHYLOGENY; ANAEROBIC CAPACITY; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CHEMOTAXIS; CHLOROBIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMIC ISLAND; MICROBIAL RESPIRATION; PHOTOTAXIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROBIUM CHLOROCHROMATII; CHLOROCHROMATIUM AGGREGATUM; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84887978108     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2013-14-11-r127     Document Type: Article

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