Critical Issues in Bacterial Phylogeny

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 423-434

  Gupta, Radhey S ^a   Griffiths, Emma ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; PHYLOGENY;

AQUIFEX; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; CHLAMYDIA; CHLOROBI; CHLOROFLEXI; CLOSTRIDIUM; CYANOBACTERIA; CYTOPHAGA; DEINOCOCCUS; DEINOCOCCUS-THERMUS; FUSOBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; SPIROCHAETALES; THERMOTOGA; THERMUS;

BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIA; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENETIC MARKERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0036597701     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/tpbi.2002.1589     Document Type: Article

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