Cutting a gordian knot: Emended classification and description of the genus Flavobacterium, emended description of the family Flavobacteriaceae, and proposal of Flavobacterium hydatis nom. nov. (basonym, Cytophaga aquatilis Strohl and Tait 1978)

International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 128-148

  Bernardet, J F ^a   Segers, P ^b   Vancanneyt, M ^b   Berthe, F ^a   Kersters, K ^b   Vandamme, P ^b  

^a INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CYTOSINE; GUANINE;

ARTICLE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; FISH DISEASE; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLEXIBACTERACEAE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TAXONOMY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYTOPHAGA; FLAVOBACTERIACEAE; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLAVOBACTERIUM AQUATILE; FLAVOBACTERIUM BRANCHIOPHILUM; FLAVOBACTERIUM COLUMNARE; FLAVOBACTERIUM FLEVENSE; FLAVOBACTERIUM HYDATIS; FLAVOBACTERIUM JOHNSONIAE; FLAVOBACTERIUM PECTINOVORUM; FLAVOBACTERIUM PSYCHROPHILUM; FLAVOBACTERIUM SACCHAROPHILUM; FLAVOBACTERIUM SUCCINICANS; FLEXIBACTER; FLEXIBACTERACEAE; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0030052649     PISSN: 00207713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00207713-46-1-128     Document Type: Article

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