Discovery of an endosymbiotic nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium UCYN-A in Braarudosphaera bigelowii (Prymnesiophyceae)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Hagino, Kyoko ^a   Onuma, Ryo ^b   Kawachi, Masanobu ^c   Horiguchi, Takeo ^b  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S; DNA 18S;

ARTICLE; BRAARUDOSPHAERA BIGELOWII; CELL NUCLEUS; CHLOROPLAST; CHRYSOCHROMULINA PARKEAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; CYANOBACTERIUM UCYN A; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; GENOTYPE; HAPTOPHYTA; LAMELLAR BODY; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SPHEROID CELL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; HAPTOPHYTA; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYLOGENY; SPORES; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84891886742     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081749     Document Type: Article

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