Taxonomy of antarctic Flavobacterium species: Description of Flavobacterium gillisiae sp. nov., Flavobacterium tegetincola sp. nov. and Flavobacterium xanthum sp. nov., nom. rev. and reclassification of [Flavobacterium] salegens as Salegentibacter salegens gen. nov., comb. nov.

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1055-1063

  McCammon, Sharee A ^a   Bowman, John P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Flavobacterium; Psychrophilic bacteria; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; ICE; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GENOTYPE; LIPID ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; CYTOPHAGA; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLAVOBACTERIUM GILLISIAE; FLAVOBACTERIUM SALEGENS; FLAVOBACTERIUM TEGETINCOLA; FLAVOBACTERIUM XANTHUM; PROKARYOTA; SALEGENTIBACTER SALEGENS;

EID: 0034112539     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00207713-50-3-1055     Document Type: Article

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