Bacterial host specificity of Lucinacea endosymbionts: Interspecific variation in 16S rRNA sequences

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 140, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 193-198

  Durand, Pascale ^a   Gros, Olivier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DES ANTILLES ET DE LA GUYANE   (France)

Author keywords

16S rDNA; Lucinacea; Phylogeny; Symbiosis; Thioautotrophic bacteria

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 0030200130     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(96)00178-4     Document Type: Article

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