Genome paper Sinorhizonium Meliloti
From LMU BioDB 2013
Terms
- Megaplasmid - Genomic material that is not found in the chromosome that contains 100kb or more of information. Usually found in highly diverse species of bacteria
- Root Nudules - Nodes that grow on the plant's roots and are generally linked with Nitrogen fixing symbiosis between the plant and a bacteria
- Endosymbionts - an organism that exhibits symbiosis that lives within the body of another organism
- Replicon - region of DNA or RNA that uses a single origin of replication during transcription
- Paralogous Family - Genes that are considered to have arisen and subsequently differed due to a duplication of genetic material
- ABC transporters- transmembrane proteins that use ATP binding to power the transport of substrates across a barrier.
- Extracytoplasmic function - A function that occurs outside of the cell's cytoplasm
- Ortholog - Genes that are generated after speciation
- Orphan Genes - Genes that only exist in a small group or single organism. They are not found in the rest of the taxonomic tree
- Insertion sequence - Small tranposable genes that only encode for transposon activity
