Polaribacter gen. nov., with three new species, P. irgensii sp. nov., P. franzmannii sp. nov. and P. filamentus sp. nov., gas vacuolate polar marine bacteria of the Cytophaga-Flavobacterium-Bacteroides group and reclassification of 'Flectobacillus glomeratus' as Polaribacter glomeratus comb. nov.

International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 223-235

  Gosink, John J ^a   Woese, Carl R ^b   Staley, James T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Polaribacter filamentus sp. nov.; Polaribacter franzmannii sp. nov.; Polaribacter gen. nov.; Polaribacter glomeratus comb. nov.; Polaribacter irgensii sp. nov.

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES; CLASSIFICATION; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLEXIBACTERACEAE; GENOTYPE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POLARIBACTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDETES; CYTOPHAGA; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLECTOBACILLUS; FLEXIBACTERACEAE; NEGIBACTERIA; POLARIBACTER; POLARIBACTER FILAMENTUS; POLARIBACTER FRANZMANNII; POLARIBACTER GLOMERATUS; POLARIBACTER IRGENSII; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031894836     PISSN: 00207713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00207713-48-1-223     Document Type: Article

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