'Candidatus Glomeribacter gigasporarum' gen. nov., sp. nov., an endosymbiont of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 121-124

  Bianciotto, Valeria ^a   Lumini, Erica ^a   Bonfante, Paola ^a   Vandamme, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S; PRIMER DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S;

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; ARTICLE; BURKHOLDERIA; CANDIDATUS; CYTOPLASM; ENDOSYMBIONT; FUNGAL MORPHOLOGY; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; GIGASPORA GIGANTEA; GIGASPORA MARGARITA; GIGASPORA ROSEA; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MORPHOLOGY; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RALSTONIA; SCUTELLOSPORA CASTANEA; SCUTELLOSPORA PERSICA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FUNGI; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BURKHOLDERIA; CANDIDATUS GLOMERIBACTER; CANDIDATUS GLOMERIBACTER GIGASPORARUM; CASTANEA; EMBRYOPHYTA; FUNGI; GIGASPORA; GIGASPORA DECIPIENS; GIGASPORA GIGANTEA; GIGASPORA MARGARITA; GIGASPORA ROSEA; MARGARITES; NEGIBACTERIA; PANDORAEA; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA; RALSTONIA; SCUTELLOSPORA; SCUTELLOSPORA CASTANEA; SCUTELLOSPORA PERSICA;

EID: 0037214883     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.02382-0     Document Type: Article

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