Architecture and functions of a multipartite genome of the methylotrophic bacterium Paracoccus aminophilus JCM 7686, containing primary and secondary chromids

BMC Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Dziewit, Lukasz ^a   Czarnecki, Jakub ^a   Wibberg, Daniel ^b   Radlinska, Monika ^a   Mrozek, Paulina ^a   Szymczak, Michal ^a   Schlüter, Andreas ^b   Pühler, Alfred ^b   Bartosik, Dariusz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage; Chromid; Genome; Mobile genetic element; Paracoccus aminophilus JCM 7686; Plasmid

Indexed keywords

TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIAL GENOME; CLASSIFICATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARACOCCUS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROPHAGE; TRANSPOSON; VIROLOGY;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARACOCCUS; PHYLOGENY; PROPHAGES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84893652508     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-124     Document Type: Article

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