Article
Recombination in Thermotoga: implications for species concepts and biogeography.
Genetics - 1 Feb 2006
Nesbø Camilla L, Dlutek Marlena, Doolittle W Ford
Abstract excerpt
Here we characterize regions of the genomes of eight members of the hyperthermophilic genus Thermotoga. These bacteria differ from each other physiologically and by 3-20% in gene content and occupy physically distinct environments in widely disparate regions of the globe. Among the four different lineages (represented by nine different strains) that we compare, no two are closer than 96% in the average sequences...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genetic Speciation
- Genomics
- Genotype
- Likelihood Functions
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Multigene Family
- Phenotype
- Phylogeny
- Recombination, Genetic
- Sequence Alignment
- Species Specificity
- Thermotoga maritima
- Thermotoga neapolitana
- Water Microbiology