Distribution and evolution of nitrogen fixation genes in the phylum Bacteroidetes

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 44-50

  Inoue, Jun Ichi ^a,b   Oshima, Kenshiro ^c   Suda, Wataru ^c   Sakamoto, Mitsuo ^a   Iino, Takao ^a   Noda, Satoko ^a,d   Hongoh, Yuichi ^a,e   Hattori, Masahira ^c   Ohkuma, Moriya ^a,f  

^a RIKEN BIORESOURCE CENTER   (Japan)

^b Synaptech Co Ltd   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^e TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacteroidales; Nif gene; Nitrogenase; Symbiosis; Termite

Indexed keywords

ALKALIFLEXUS IMSHENETSKII; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDALES; BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDETES; DYSGONOMONAS CAPNOCYTOPHAGOIDES; DYSGONOMONAS GADEI; ISOPTERA; PALUDIBACTER PROPIONICIGENES;

ACETYLENE; BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTEROIDETES; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ACETYLENE; BACTEROIDETES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 84925456954     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.ME14142     Document Type: Article

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