Reply to Santiago-Rodriguez et al.: Was luxS really isolated from 25- to 40-million-year-old bacteria?

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 353, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 85-86

  Weyrich, Laura S ^a   Llamas, Bastien ^a   Cooper, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S; AMBER; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LYASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; EVOLUTION; GENE SEQUENCE; LUXS GENE; MICROFOSSIL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUORUM SENSING; RNA SEQUENCE; BACTERIA; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS;

AMBER; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON-SULFUR LYASES;

EID: 84898894579     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6968.12415     Document Type: Article

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