Laurmagee: Week 10

1. "Nucleotide sequence and predicted functions of the entire Sinorhizobium meliloti pSymA megaplasmid"
   • I used GoogleScholar and entered into the search bar, "Sinorhizobium meliloti".
   • In this article, the authors conclude that Sinorhizobium meliloti contains nucleotide sequences characteristic of nitrogen fixating bacteria. They confirm this conclusion through sequencing the nucleotides of Sinorhizobium meliloti and determining the subsequent proteins that illicit a particular function.
   • There was a total of 16,800 results.
   • This article was published in 2001, so quite a while has passed since, but I think that the results are still fairly relevant. The researchers identified the function of certain genes in Sinorhizobium meliloti, which is information that will never be outdated, but may be improved with further details of the specific function.
   • rnett, M. J., Fisher, R. F., Jones, T., Komp, C., Abola, A. P., Barloy-Hubler, F., & Long, S. R. (2001). Nucleotide sequence and predicted functions of the entire Sinorhizobium meliloti pSymA megaplasmid. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 98(17), 9883-9888. Retrieved from http://www.pnas.org/content/98/17/9883.abstract
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   • I searched the web of science database with the key terms nucleotide sequence, Sinorhizobium meliloti, and the the first author of the article Barnett. I got two results from this search and the first was the article I have noted above.
   • This article has been cited 156 times in Wed of Science and 282 times total included all other databases.
   • It appears that many of these articles have expanded upon the research done in the article above, by continuing to identify functions of Sinorhizobium meliloti from its nucleotide sequence. Many of the articles deal with genomics in an environmental setting, because as the article notes, Sinorhizobium meliloti is greatly involved with nitrogen fixation. Therefore, the term nitrogen comes up a lot in these articles as well.
2. "The complete sequence of the 1,683-kb pSymB megaplasmid from the N2-fixing endosymbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti"
   • I used GoogleScholar and entered into the search bar, "Sinorhizobium meliloti".
   • The article outlines the entire sequence of the specific strain of N2-fixing endosymbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti.
   • There was a total of 16,800 results.
   • This article was also published in 2001, so again, the results had not been published recently, but the information it offers is still very much applicable to present day research as well.
   • Finan, T. M., Weidner, S., Wong, K., Buhrmester, J., Chain, P., Vorholter, F. J., . . . Puhler, A. (2001). The complete sequence of the 1,683-kb pSymB megaplasmid from the N2-fixing endosymbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 98(17), 9889-9894. Retrieved from http://www.pnas.org/content/98/17/9889.abstract
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   • I entered in the following terms into the search field on the Web of Science database: complete sequence, Sinorhizobium meliloti, and the author Finan. I come up with three results and the article I was looking for that is noted above, was number three on the list.
   • This article was cited 167 time in web of science and 282 times total in all databases available.
   • This article has been cited in many of the same articles that were previously listed in my search of the first article on this page. The deal with exploring the functions of Sinorhizobium meliloti more closely and unique to this article, there are some papers that worked on the interactions this bacteria might play in natural environments.

Laurmagee (talk) 15:04, 1 November 2013 (PDT)