Comparative and Functional Genomics
Volume 2007 (2007), Article ID 25751, 10 pages
doi:10.1155/2007/25751
Research Article

Comparison of Envelope-Related Genes in Unicellular and Filamentous Cyanobacteria

Yu Yang,1,2 Song Qin,1 Fangqing Zhao,1,2 Xiaoyuan Chi,1,2 and Xiaowen Zhang1,2

1Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
2Graduate University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Received 2 August 2006; Revised 17 February 2007; Accepted 3 June 2007

Academic Editor: Stephen Oliver

Copyright © 2007 Yu Yang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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