Comparative genomics reveals adaptations of a halotolerant thaumarchaeon in the interfaces of brine pools in the Red Sea

ISME Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 396-411

  Ngugi, David Kamanda ^a   Blom, Jochen ^b   Alam, Intikhab ^a   Rashid, Mamoon ^a   Ba Alawi, Wail ^a   Zhang, Guishan ^a   Hikmawan, Tyas ^a   Guan, Yue ^a   Antunes, Andre ^a,d   Siam, Rania ^c   El Dorry, Hamza ^c   Bajic, Vladimir ^a   Stingl, Ulrich ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c The American University in Cairo   (Egypt)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; CANDIDATUS NITROSOPUMILUS; CANDIDATUS NITROSOPUMILUS MARITIMUS; NITROSOMONADALES;

SEA WATER;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARCHAEAL GENOME; ARCHAEON; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; GENOMICS; INDIAN OCEAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PHYLOGENY; SALINITY;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOMICS; INDIAN OCEAN; METAGENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PHYLOGENY; SALINITY; SEAWATER;

EID: 84921612289     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2014.137     Document Type: Article

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