Unification of the genera Deleya (Baumann et al. 1983), Halomonas (Vreeland et al. 1980), and Halovibrio (Fendrich 1988) and the species Paracoccus halodenitrificans (Robinson and Gibbons 1952) into a single genus, Halomonas, and placement of the genus Zymobacter in the family Halomonadaceae

International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 550-558

  Dobson, S J ^a   Franzmann, P D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HALOPHILIC BACTERIUM; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; TAXONOMY;

EID: 0030006184     PISSN: 00207713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00207713-46-2-550     Document Type: Article

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