Phylogenetic relationships among members of the Comamonadaceae, and description of Delftia acidovorans (den Dooren de Jong 1926 and Tamaoka et al. 1987) gen. nov., comb. nov.

International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 567-576

  Wen, Aimin ^a   Fegan, Mark ^a   Hayward, Chris ^a   Chakraborty, Sukumar ^a,b   Sly, Lindsay I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

16S rDNA; Comamonadaceae; Delftia acidovorans; Phylogeny; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; COMAMONAS; DELFTIA ACIDOVORANS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY;

ACIDOVORAX; AQUASPIRILLUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COMAMONADACEAE; COMAMONAS; COMAMONAS ACIDOVORANS; COMAMONAS TERRIGENA; DELFTIA; DELFTIA ACIDOVORANS; DISCOPHORA; HYDROGENOPHAGA; IDEONELLA DECHLORATANS; LEPTOTHRIX DISCOPHORA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; RUBRIVIVAX; RUBRIVIVAX GELATINOSUS;

EID: 0032932359     PISSN: 00207713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00207713-49-2-567     Document Type: Article

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