Novel bacterial endosymbionts of Acanthamoeba spp. related to the Paramecium caudatum symbiont Caedibacter caryophilus

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 357-367

  Horn, Matthias ^a   Fritsche, Thomas R ^b   Gautom, Romesh K ^c   Schleifer, Karl Heinz ^a   Wagner, Michael ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Washington State Public Health Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA POLYPHAGA; ACANTHAMOEBA SP.; ACANTHAMOEBIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAEDIBACTER CARYOPHILUS; CANDIDATUS; CANDIDATUS CAEDIBACTER ACANTHAMOEBAE; CANDIDATUS PARACAEDIBACTER SYMBIOSUS; ENDOSYMBIONT OF ACANTHAMOEBA POLYPHAGA; HOLOSPORA; HOLOSPORA OBTUSA; NEGIBACTERIA; PARAMECIUM; PARAMECIUM CAUDATUM;

RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; RNA 18S;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARAMECIUM; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE; SYMBIOSIS;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARAMECIUM; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 0033171423     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.1999.00045.x     Document Type: Article

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