Genome sequence of the Lotus corniculatus microsymbiont Mesorhizobium loti strain R88B

Standards in Genomic Sciences

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Reeve, Wayne ^a   Sullivan, John ^b   Ronson, Clive ^b   Tian, Rui ^a   Bräu, Lambert ^c   Davenport, Karen ^d   Goodwin, Lynne ^d   Chain, Patrick ^d   Woyke, Tanja ^e   Lobos, Elizabeth ^e   Huntemann, Marcel ^e   Pati, Amrita ^e   Mavromatis, Konstantinos ^e   Markowitz, Victor ^f   Ivanova, Natalia ^e   Kyrpides, Nikos ^e,g  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Alphaproteobacteria; Nitrogen fixation; Root nodule bacteria; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84971268629     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19443277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1944-3277-9-3     Document Type: Article

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