The genus Abiotrophia (Kawamura et al.) is not monophyletic: Proposal of Granulicatella gen. nov., Granulicatella adiacens comb. nov., Granulicatella elegans comb. nov. and Granulicatella balaenopterae comb. nov.

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 365-369

  Collins, Matthew D ^a   Lawson, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abiotrophia; Granulicatella gen. nov.; Nutritionally variant streptococci; Phylogeny; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ABIOTROPHIA; ARTICLE; GRANULICATELLA; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS; TAXONOMY;

ABIOTROPHIA; ABIOTROPHIA ADIACENS; ABIOTROPHIA BALAENOPTERAE; ABIOTROPHIA DEFECTIVA; ABIOTROPHIA ELEGANS; GRANULICATELLA; GRANULICATELLA ADIACENS; GRANULICATELLA BALAENOPTERAE; GRANULICATELLA ELEGANS; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0033966082     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00207713-50-1-365     Document Type: Article

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