Phylogeny and in situ identification of a morphologically conspicuous bacterium, Candidatus Magnospira bakii, present at very low frequency in activated sludge

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 125-135

  Snaidr, Jiri ^a,b,d   Fuchs, Bernhard ^a,b   Wallner, Günter ^c   Wagner, Michael ^a   Schleifer, Karl Heinz ^a   Amann, Rudolf ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d Vermicon Eng and Microbiol Ag   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES PHYLUM; CANDIDATUS; CANDIDATUS MAGNOSPIRA BAKII; CYTOPHAGA; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLEXIBACTER; SAPROSPIRA; SAPROSPIRA GRANDIS;

RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA GENE; SEWAGE;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEWAGE;

EID: 0033108163     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.1999.00012.x     Document Type: Article

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