Metabolic traits of an uncultured archaeal lineage-MSBL1-from brine pools of the Red Sea

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Mwirichia, Romano ^a,d   Alam, Intikhab ^a   Rashid, Mamoon ^a   Vinu, Manikandan ^a   Ba Alawi, Wail ^a   Anthony Kamau, Allan ^a   Kamanda Ngugi, David ^a   Goker, Markus ^b   Klenk, Hans Peter ^c   Bajic, Vladimir ^a   Stingl, Ulrich ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d Embu University College   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRINE; INORGANIC SALT; RNA 16S;

ARCHAEAL GENOME; ARCHAEON; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENETICS; GENOMICS; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GLYCOLYSIS; INDIAN OCEAN; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PROCEDURES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

ARCHAEA; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOMICS; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GLYCOLYSIS; INDIAN OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SALTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84954538691     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep19181     Document Type: Article

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