Genome Sequence of Thermofilum pendens Reveals an Exceptional Loss of Biosynthetic Pathways without Genome Reduction

Iain Anderson, Jason Rodriguez, Dwi Susanti, Iris Porat, Claudia Reich, Luke E. Ulrich, James G. Elkins, Kostas Mavromatis, Athanasios Lykidis, Edwin Kim, Linda S. Thompson, Matt Nolan, Miriam Land, Alex Copeland, Alla Lapidus, Susan Lucas, Chris Detter, Igor B. Zhulin, Gary J. Olsen, William Whitman, Biswarup Mukhopadhyay, James Bristow and Nikos Kyrpides

Journal of Bacteriology 190 ( 8 ): 2957 - 2965 , 2008