Phylogenomic analysis of lipid biosynthetic genes of Archaea shed light on the ‘lipid divide’

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 54-69

  Villanueva, Laura ^a   Schouten, Stefan ^a,b   Damsté, Jaap S Sinninghe ^a,b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,3 BUTADIENE DERIVATIVE; ALPHA-GLYCEROPHOSPHORIC ACID; FATTY ACID; GLYCEROPHOSPHATE; HEMITERPENE; ISOPRENE; MEMBRANE LIPID; PENTANE; TERPENE;

ARCHAEAL GENOME; ARCHAEON; BACTERIUM; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BUTADIENES; CELL MEMBRANE; FATTY ACIDS; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GLYCEROPHOSPHATES; HEMITERPENES; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; PENTANES; TERPENES;

EID: 84967255505     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13361     Document Type: Article

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