Erratum: Architecture and gene repertoire of the flexible genome of the extreme acidophile acidithiobacillus caldus (PLoS ONE 10:3 (e0122682) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078237);Architecture and gene repertoire of the flexible genome of the extreme acidophile Acidithiobacillus caldus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Acuña, Lillian G ^a,b   Cárdenas, Juan Pablo ^a,b   Covarrubias, Paulo C ^a,b   Haristoy, Juan José ^a   Flores, Rodrigo ^a   Nuñez, Harold ^a   Riadi, Gonzalo ^c   Shmaryahu, Amir ^a   Valdés, Jorge ^d   Dopson, Mark ^e   Rawlings, Douglas E ^f   Banfield, Jillian F ^g   Holmes, David S ^a,b   Quatrini, Raquel ^a,b  

^a Fundacion Ciencia para la Vida   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD ANDRÉS BELLO   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE TALCA   (Chile)

^d Fraunhofer Chile Research Foundation   (Chile)

^e LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS; ACIDITHIOBACILLUS CALDUS; ACIDOPHILE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE POOL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMIC ISLAND; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SYNTENY; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BIOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; SULFUR; TRANSPOSON;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PLASMIDS; SULFUR;

EID: 84892656810     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122682     Document Type: Erratum

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