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The essential gene set of a photosynthetic organism
Contributed by Susan S. Golden, September 29, 2015 (sent for review July 16, 2015; reviewed by Caroline S. Harwood and William B. Whitman)

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- Published in issue December 1, 2015.
- Published first October 27, 2015.
Author Information
- Benjamin E. Rubina,
- Kelly M. Wetmoreb,
- Morgan N. Priceb,
- Spencer Diamonda,
- Ryan K. Shultzabergerc,
- Laura C. Lowea,
- Genevieve Curtina,
- Adam P. Arkinb,d,
- Adam Deutschbauerb, and
- Susan S. Goldena,1
- aDivision of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093;
- bPhysical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720;
- cKavli Institute for Brain and Mind, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093;
- dDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
Contributed by Susan S. Golden, September 29, 2015 (sent for review July 16, 2015; reviewed by Caroline S. Harwood and William B. Whitman)
Footnotes
- ↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: sgolden{at}ucsd.edu.
Author contributions: B.E.R., K.M.W., S.D., A.D., and S.S.G. designed research; B.E.R., K.M.W., M.N.P., R.K.S., L.C.L., and G.C. performed research; K.M.W., M.N.P., A.P.A., and A.D. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; B.E.R., M.N.P., S.D., R.K.S., and S.S.G. analyzed data; and B.E.R. and S.S.G. wrote the paper.
Reviewers: C.S.H., University of Washington; and W.B.W., The University of Georgia.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
See Commentary on page 14747.
This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1519220112/-/DCSupplemental.
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