Single-cell genomics of uncultivated deep-branching magnetotactic bacteria reveals a conserved set of magnetosome genes

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 21-37

  Kolinko, Sebastian ^a,e   Richter, Michael ^b   Glöckner, Frank Oliver ^b,c   Brachmann, Andreas ^a   Schüler, Dirk ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; MAGNETITE;

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MAGNETOSOME; METABOLISM; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEDIMENT;

BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; FERROSOFERRIC OXIDE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MAGNETOSOMES; METAGENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84956583385     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12907     Document Type: Article

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