Novel anaerobic ultramicrobacteria belonging to the Verrucomicrobiales lineage of bacterial descent isolated by dilution culture from anoxic rice paddy soil

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1382-1388

  Janssen, Peter H ^a,d   Schuhmann, Alexandra ^a   Mörschel, Erhard ^b   Rainey, Frederick A ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CELL SIZE; DILUTION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SOIL MICROFLORA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; VERRUCOMICROBIALES; ORYZA SATIVA; POACEAE;

ANOXIC SOIL; BACTERIA; DILUTION CULTURE; NEW STRAIN; PADDY SOIL;

EID: 0030613344     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.4.1382-1388.1997     Document Type: Article

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