Identification and analysis of two sequences encoding ice-binding proteins obtained from a putative bacterial symbiont of the psychrophilic Antarctic ciliate Euplotes focardii

Antarctic Science

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 491-501

  Pucciarelli, Sandra ^a   Chiappori, Federica ^b   Devaraj, Raghul Rajan ^a   Yang, Guang ^a   Yu, Ting ^c   Ballarini, Patrizia ^a   Miceli, Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

antifreeze; biology; cold adaptation; genome; horizontal gene transfer; Protozoa

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BACTERIUM; CHEMICAL BINDING; CILIATE; COLD TOLERANCE; GENE TRANSFER; PROTEIN; SYMBIONT;

AUSTRALIA; VICTORIA VALLEY [VICTORIA]; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CILIOPHORA; EUPLOTES FOCARDII; PROTOZOA;

EID: 84906943766     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: 13652079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954102014000017     Document Type: Article

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