| Species: | Rickettsia prowazekii
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| Species code: | RICPR
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| Type: | Eubacteria
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| Taxonomy: | Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Alphaproteobacteria; Rickettsiales; Rickettsiaceae; Rickettsieae; Rickettsia (TaxID: 782)
[NEWT /
NCBI]
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| Strain(s): | Madrid E
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| Genome: | circular, 1.11 Mb; no ECE
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| Reference(s): |
MEDLINE=99039499
[NCBI, ExPASy, Israel, Japan]; PubMed=9823893;
Andersson S.G.E., Zomorodipour A., Andersson J.O.,
Sicheritz-Ponten T., Alsmark U.C.M., Podowski R.M., Naeslund A.K.,
Eriksson A.-S., Winkler H.H., Kurland C.G.;
"The genome sequence of Rickettsia prowazekii and the origin of
mitochondria.";
Nature 396:133-140(1998).
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| Genome official sequence WWW site(s): |
http://evolution.bmc.uu.se/~siv/gnomics/Rickettsia.html
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| Other WWW site(s): |
GIB (DDBJ)
TIGR CMR
EBI GeneQuiz
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| Document: | ricpr.txt |
| Description: | Obligate intracellular parasite. Causative agent of epidemic typhus.
R.prowazekii is more closely related to mitochondria than is any other
microbe studied so far.
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| Properties: | Number of membranes : 2
Presence of a flagella : No
Number of inteins : 0
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