Teredinibacter turnerae gen. nov., sp. nov., a dinitrogen-fixing, cellulolytic, endosymbiotic γ-proteobacterium isolated from the gills of wood-boring molluscs (Bivalvia: Teredinidae)

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 2261-2269

  Distel, Daniel L ^a   Morrill, Wendy ^a   MacLaren Toussaint, Noelle ^a   Franks, Dianna ^b   Waterbury, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rRNA phylogeny; Bivalvia; Shipworms; Symbiont; Teredinidae

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CALCIUM ION; CARBOXYLIC ACID; CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE; CELLOBIOSE; CELLULOSE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; MAGNESIUM ION; NITROGEN; NITROUS OXIDE; PECTIN; RIBOSOME RNA; SEA WATER; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUGAR; XYLAN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIVALVE; CARBON SOURCE; CHEMISTRY; CLADISTICS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTENT; ENDOSYMBIONT; ENERGY RESOURCE; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GILL; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE ASPOROGENOUS ROD-SHAPED BACTERIA; MOLLUSC; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TEREDINIBACTER TURNERAE; TYPE STRAIN;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GILLS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLLUSCA; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOMONADACEAE; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BIVALVIA; LYRODUS; LYRODUS PEDICELLATUS; MOLLUSCA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; TEREDINIBACTER TURNERAE; TEREDINIDAE; UNCULTURED GAMMA PROTEOBACTERIUM;

EID: 0036865981     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.02184-0     Document Type: Article

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