Identification of Bacillus kaustophilus, Bacillus thermocatenulatus and Bacillus strain HSR as members of Bacillus thermoleovorans

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 232-237

  Sunna, Anwar ^a   Tokajian, Sima ^b   Burghardt, Jutta ^c   Rainey, Fred ^c   Antranikian, Garabed ^a   Hashwa, Fuad ^b  

^a HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

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

Author keywords

Bacillus; DNA DNA hybridization; rDNA rRNA analysis; Thermophile

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; JORDAN; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GEOBACILLUS KAUSTOPHILUS; GEOBACILLUS THERMOCATENULATUS; GEOBACILLUS THERMOLEOVORANS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0030792463     PISSN: 07232020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0723-2020(97)80070-7     Document Type: Article

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