Azotobacter genomes: The genome of Azotobacter chroococcum NCIMB 8003 (ATCC 4412)

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Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Robson, Robert L ^a   Jones, Robert ^b   Robson, R Moyra ^a   Schwartz, Ariel ^c   Richardson, Toby H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b Craic Computing LLC   (United States)

^c Synthetic Genomics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; ALCOHOL; AROMATIC COMPOUND; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CAPSULE LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; CARBOXYLIC ACID; CAROTENE; CELLULOSE; COILED COIL PROTEIN; CYANOCOBALAMIN; DISACCHARIDE; FATTY ACID; GLYCOGEN; INTEIN; LEVAN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MELANIN; MONOSACCHARIDE; POLYOL; POLYSACCHARIDE; SIDEROPHORE; SODIUM CHANNEL; STARCH; TRISACCHARIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; AZOTOBACTER; AZOTOBACTER CHROOCOCCUM; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; BACTERIAL MOTILITY; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TELLURITE RESISTANCE; CARBON SOURCE; CELL SURFACE; CIRCULAR REPLICON; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE BIOSYNTHETIC CAPACITY; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; ENERGETIC CAPACITY; GENE AND NUCLEIC ACID PARAMETERS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INTEGRATING CONJUGATIVE ELEMENT; INTRON; METHYLATION MOTIF; MOBILE GENETIC ELEMENT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; OSMOLARITY AND OSMOLALITY; OSMOTIC CONTROL; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PLASMIDS PACX50A; PLASMIDS PACX50B; PLASMIDS PACX50C; PLASMIDS PACX50D; PLASMIDS PACX50E; PLASMIDS PACX50F; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; PROPHAGE; REPLICON; RESPIRATORY CHAIN; RESTRICTION AND MODIFICATION SYSTEM; RETRON; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SYNTENY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

AZOTOBACTER; AZOTOBACTER CHROOCOCCUM; AZOTOBACTER GROUP; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; NEGIBACTERIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AZOTOBACTER; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN FIXATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84936797760     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0127997     Document Type: Article

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