The phylogenetic relationships of Chlorobium tepidum and Chloroflexus aurantiacus based upon their RecA sequences

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 162, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 53-60

  Gruber, Tanja M ^a   Eisen, Jonathan A ^b   Gish, Kurt ^b,c   Bryant, Donald A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Thermo Fisher Scientific   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlorobium tepidum; Chloroflexus aurantiacus; Green bacterium; Molecular systematics; Phylogenetics; recA

Indexed keywords

DNA; RECA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHLOROBIUM; CHLOROFLEXUS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECA GENE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHLOROBI; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REC A RECOMBINASES; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0032080719     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00102-5     Document Type: Article

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