Genome sequence of Candidatus nitrososphaera evergladensis from group I.1b enriched from everglades soil reveals novel genomic features of the ammonia-oxidizing archaea

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Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Zhalnina, Kateryna V ^a   Dias, Raquel ^a   Leonard, Michael T ^a   De Quadros, Patricia Dorr ^b   Camargo, Flavio A O ^b   Drew, Jennifer C ^a   Farmerie, William G ^c   Daroub, Samira H ^a   Triplett, Eric W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL DNA; AMMONIA; CARBON; HEAVY METAL; NITROGEN; TERPENE;

AMMONIA OXIDIZING ARCHAEON; ARCHAEAL GENOME; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CANDIDATUS NITROSOSPHAERA EVERGLADENSIS; CARBON METABOLISM; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; CONTIG MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; EVERGLADES SOIL; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METAGENOMICS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOIL; ADAPTATION; ARCHAEON; CARBON CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CHEMOTAXIS; CYTOLOGY; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEA; TOXICITY; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMMONIA; ARCHAEA; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARBON; CARBON CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CHEMOTAXIS; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENOMICS; METALS, HEAVY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; NITROGEN; OCEANS AND SEAS; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TERPENES;

EID: 84904279916     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101648     Document Type: Article

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