Comparative genomics of Mortierella elongata and its bacterial endosymbiont Mycoavidus cysteinexigens

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 2964-2983

  Uehling, J ^a   Gryganskyi, A ^b   Hameed, K ^a   Tschaplinski, T ^c   Misztal, P K ^d   Wu, S ^e   Desiro A ^f   Vande Pol, N ^f   Du, Z ^f   Zienkiewicz, A ^f   Zienkiewicz, K ^f,g   Morin, E ^h   Tisserant, E ^h   Splivallo, R ⁱ   Hainaut, M ^j   Henrissat, B ^j   Ohm, R ^k   Kuo, A ^l   Yan, J ^l   Lipzen, A ^l   Nolan, M ^l   LaButti, K ^l   Barry, K ^l   Goldstein, A H ^d   Labbe J ^c   Schadt, C ^c   Tuskan, G ^c   Grigoriev, I ^l   Martin, F ^h   Vilgalys, R ^a   Bonito, G ^f   more..

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b L F Lambert Spawn Co   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

ⁱ GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^j AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^k UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^l DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENOME; BURKHOLDERIACEAE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENOME; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIPID METABOLISM; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORTIERELLA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BURKHOLDERIACEAE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; LIPID METABOLISM; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; METAGENOME; MORTIERELLA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 85011383004     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13669     Document Type: Article

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