Candidatus Frankia datiscae Dg1, the Actinobacterial microsymbiont of datisca glomerata, expresses the canonical nod genes NodABC in symbiosis with its host plant

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Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Persson, Tomas ^a   Battenberg, Kai ^b   Demina, Irina V ^a   Vigil Stenman, Theoden ^a   Heuvel, Brian Vanden ^c   Pujic, Petar ^d   Facciotti, Marc T ^b,e   Wilbanks, Elizabeth G ^b   O'Brien, Anna ^b   Fournier, Pascale ^d   Hernandez, Maria Antonia Cruz ^f   Herrera, Alberto Mendoza ^f   Médigue, Claudine ^g   Normand, Philippe ^d   Pawlowski, Katharina ^a   Berry, Alison M ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Malik and Seeme Hasan School of Business   (United States)

^d University of Lyon   (France)

^e University of California   (United States)

^f INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^g CENTRE NATIONAL DE SÉQUENÇAGE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUCURBITALES; DATISCA GLOMERATA; FRANKIA; FRANKIA DATISCAE DG1; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOST RANGE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; INOCULATION; LEGUME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MYCORRHIZA; NODA GENE; NODB GENE; NODC GENE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CUCURBITACEAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CUCURBITALES; DATISCA GLOMERATA; FRANKIA; FUNGI; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CUCURBITACEAE; FRANKIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84934899627     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0127630     Document Type: Article

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