Single-cell genomics reveal low recombination frequencies in freshwater bacteria of the SAR11 clade

Genome Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Zaremba Niedzwiedzka, Katarzyna ^a   Viklund, Johan ^a   Zhao, Weizhou ^a   Ast, Jennifer ^a   Sczyrba, Alexander ^b   Woyke, Tanja ^c   McMahon, Katherina ^d   Bertilsson, Stefan ^a   Stepanauskas, Ramunas ^e   Andersson, Siv G E ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; SAR11 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FRESH WATER; RNA 16S;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRESHWATER BACTERIA; FRESHWATER SPECIES; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME SIZE; GENOMICS; METAGENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE CELL GENOMICS; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL SURFACE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION ABUNDANCE;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; METAGENOME; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84888237152     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2013-14-11-r130     Document Type: Article

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