Transfer of Bacillus lentimorbus and bacillus popilliae to the genus paenibacillus with emended descriptions of paenibacillus lentimorbus comb. nov. and Paenibacillus popilliae comb. nov.

International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 531-540

  Pettersson, Bertil ^a   Rippere, Karen E ^b   Yousten, Allan A ^b   Priest, Fergus G ^c  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Insect pathogens; Paenibacillus lentimorbus comb. nov.; Paenibacillus popilliae comb. nov.

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS LENTIMORBUS; BACILLUS POPILLIAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAENIBACILLUS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TAXONOMY;

BACILLUS LENTIMORBUS; BACILLUS POPILLIAE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; INSECTA; PAENIBACILLUS; PAENIBACILLUS LENTIMORBUS; PAENIBACILLUS POPILLIAE; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032902764     PISSN: 00207713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00207713-49-2-531     Document Type: Article

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