The primary transcriptome of the marine diazotroph Trichodesmium erythraeum IMS101

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Pfreundt, Ulrike ^a   Kopf, Matthias ^a   Belkin, Natalia ^b   Berman Frank, Ilana ^b   Hess, Wolfgang R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; RETROPOSON; TRANSCRIPTOME;

AQUATIC SPECIES; BACTERIAL GENE; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INTRON; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; RETROPOSON;

AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYANOBACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RETROELEMENTS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84906674918     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06187     Document Type: Article

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