Clostridium paradoxum DSM 7308(T) contains multiple 16S rRNA genes with heterogeneous intervening sequences

Microbiology

Volumn 142, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 2087-2095

  Rainey, Fred A ^a   Ward Rainey, Naomi L ^a   Janssen, Peter H ^b   Hippe, Hans ^a   Stackebrandt, Erko ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

16S rRNA rDNA; Clostridium paradoxum; Intervening sequence; Multiple operons; Operon heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLOSTRIDIUM; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENE NUMBER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM PARADOXUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0029820730     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/13500872-142-8-2087     Document Type: Article

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