When does a clone deserve a name? A perspective on bacterial species based on population genetics

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 419-424

  Lan, Ruiting ^a   Reeves, Peter R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CLONE; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PLAGUE; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLOSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY; TUBERCULOSIS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

BACTERIA; CLONE CELLS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TERMINOLOGY; VARIATION (GENETICS); YERSINIA;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEGIBACTERIA; SHIGELLA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 0035448522     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(01)02133-3     Document Type: Review

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