Genetic interrelationships of saccharolytic Clostridium botulinum types B, E and F and related clostridia as revealed by small-subunit rRNA gene sequences

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 103-110

  Hutson, R A ^a   Thompson, D E ^a   Collins, M D ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Clostridium botulinum; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; DNA SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA PROBE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

CLOSTRIDIA; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; CLOSTRIDIUM BUTYRICUM;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA PROBES; DNA, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0027339489     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1993.tb06081.x     Document Type: Article

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