Insights into the history of a bacterial group II intron remnant from the genomes of the nitrogen-fixing symbionts Sinorhizobium meliloti and Sinorhizobium medicae

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Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 306-315

  Toro, N ^a   Martinez Rodriguez L ^a   Martinez Abarca F ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SINORHIZOBIUM MEDICAE; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

BACTERIAL GENOME; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; INTRON; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NITROGEN FIXATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYLOGENY; SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84927176265     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: 13652540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2014.32     Document Type: Article

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