Comparative genomics of Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii strains with differential toxicities

BMC Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Sinha, Rati ^a   Pearson, Leanne A ^a   Davis, Timothy W ^b   Muenchhoff, Julia ^a   Pratama, Ryanbi ^a   Jex, Aaron ^c   Burford, Michele A ^b   Neilan, Brett A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Comparative genomics; Cyanobacteria; Cylindrospermopsin; Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL TOXIN; CYTOSINE; GUANINE;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPCA GENE; CPCB GENE; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIS; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIS RACIBORSKII; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA REPAIR; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME SIZE; GENOMICS; LSURNA GENE; NIFB GENE; NIFH GENE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; OSMOREGULATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RPOC1 GENE; SSURNA GENE; TOXICITY;

CYANOBACTERIA; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIS RACIBORSKII;

AMIDINOTRANSFERASES; AMIDOHYDROLASES; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; METABOLOME; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TOXINS, BIOLOGICAL; URACIL;

EID: 84896712529     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-83     Document Type: Article

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