Single-cell genomics reveals potential for magnetite and greigite biomineralization in an uncultivated multicellular magnetotactic prokaryote

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 524-531

  Kolinko, Sebastian ^a   Richter, Michael ^b   Glöckner, Frank Oliver ^b,c   Brachmann, Andreas ^a   Schüler, Dirk ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROKARYOTA;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GREIGITE; IRON; MAGNETITE; SEA WATER; SULFIDE;

BACTERIAL GENOME; CLASSIFICATION; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENETICS; GENOMICS; GERMANY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MAGNETOSOME; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; FERROSOFERRIC OXIDE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; GERMANY; IRON; MAGNETOSOMES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEAWATER; SULFIDES;

EID: 84907874166     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12198     Document Type: Article

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