Community genomic analyses constrain the distribution of metabolic traits across the Chloroflexi phylum and indicate roles in sediment carbon cycling

Microbiome

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Hug, Laura A ^a   Castelle, Cindy J ^a   Wrighton, Kelly C ^a   Thomas, Brian C ^a   Sharon, Itai ^a   Frischkorn, Kyle R ^a   Williams, Kenneth H ^b   Tringe, Susannah G ^c   Banfield, Jillian F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetogenesis; Anaerolinea; Chloroflexi; Dehalococcoides; GIF9; Metagenome; Sediment; Wood Ljungdahl

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CARBON DIOXIDE; MOLECULAR SCAFFOLD; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; CARBON CYCLING; CELL RESPIRATION; CHLOROFLEXI; DNA EXTRACTION; FERMENTATION; GENE PRODUCT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; METABOLIC PARAMETERS; METAGENOMICS; NONHUMAN; ORGANOHALIDE RESPIRATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON MOTIVE FORCE; TAXONOMY;

ANAEROLINEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS); DEHALOCOCCOIDES;

EID: 84903383681     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20492618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2049-2618-1-22     Document Type: Article

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