Neorickettsia sennetsu

Classification

Higher order taxa

Kingdom: Bacteria

Phylum: Proteobacteria

Class: Alphaproteobacteria

Order: Rickettsiales

Family: Anaplasmataceae

Genus

Genus: Neorickettsia

Species: sennetsu

NCBI: Taxonomy

Description and significance

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Genome structure

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    Total number of DNA molecules: 1; circular chromosome; no plasmids

       Total size of all DNA molecules: 859006bp

       Total genes: 971

Protein coding genes: 935

tRNA genes: 33

mRNA genes: 3

Cell structure and metabolism

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Ecology

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Pathology

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Application to Biotechnology

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Current Research

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References

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1. http://cmr.tigr.org/tigr-scripts/CMR/GenomePage.cgi?org=ges

Edited by student of Rachel Larsen and Kit Pogliano