Trichodesmium genome maintains abundant, widespread noncoding DNA in situ, despite oligotrophic lifestyle

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 4251-4256

  Walworth, Nathan ^a   Pfreundt, Ulrike ^b   Nelson, William C ^c   Mincer, Tracy ^d   Heidelberg, John F ^a   Fu, Feixue ^a   Waterbury, John B ^e   Del Rio, Tijana Glavina ^f   Goodwin, Lynne ^f   Kyrpides, Nikos C ^f   Land, Miriam L ^g   Woyke, Tanja ^f   Hutchins, David A ^a   Hess, Wolfgang R ^b   Webb, Eric A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Department   (United States)

^e WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^f DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution genomics; Marine microbiology; Nitrogen fixation; Oligotrophic

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; SPACER DNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBON; NITROGEN; RNA; TRANSPOSASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CYANOBACTERIUM; DENSITY; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; GENETIC DRIFT; GENOTYPE; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION SIZE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SYNECHOCOCCUS; TRICHODESMIUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ECOSYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CYANOBACTERIA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS; TRICHODESMIUM; TRICHODESMIUM ERYTHRAEUM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, INTERGENIC; ECOSYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OCEANS AND SEAS; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; RNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNECHOCOCCUS; TRANSPOSASES;

EID: 84929346602     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1422332112     Document Type: Article

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