Extensive gene acquisition in the extremely psychrophilic bacterial species Psychroflexus torquis and the link to sea-ice ecosystem specialism

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 133-148

  Feng, Shi ^a   Powell, Shane M ^a   Wilson, Richard ^a   Bowman, John P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ecosystem specialism; Horizontal gene transfer; Proteomics; Psychrophilic bacteria; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; FATTY ACID; PROTEOME;

ADAPTATION; ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLASSIFICATION; COLD; ECOSYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM SPECIALISM; FLAVOBACTERIACEAE; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; ICE COVER; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOMICS; PSEUDOGENE; PSYCHROPHILIC BACTERIUM; SEA; SEA ICE;

ECOSYSTEM SPECIALISM; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; PROTEOMICS; PSYCHROPHILIC BACTERIA; SEA ICE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ARCTIC REGIONS; COLD TEMPERATURE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FATTY ACIDS; FLAVOBACTERIACEAE; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; ICE COVER; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYLOGENY; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; PROTEOME; PSEUDOGENES;

EID: 84899791872     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evt209     Document Type: Article

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