Comparative transcriptomics of two environmentally relevant cyanobacteria reveals unexpected transcriptome diversity

ISME Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2056-2068

  Voigt, Karsten ^a   Sharma, Cynthia M ^b   Mitschke, Jan ^a   Joke Lambrecht, S ^a   Voß, Björn ^a   Hess, Wolfgang R ^a   Steglich, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

antisense RNA; cyanobacteria; dRNA seq; Prochlorococcus; prochlorosin; transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTERIUM; ECOTYPE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINT; GENE EXPRESSION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

CYANOBACTERIA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LIGHT; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84921664995     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2014.57     Document Type: Article

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