Phylogenetic evidence for two new insect-associated chlamydia of the family Simkaniaceae

Current Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 46-50

  Thao, MyLo Ly ^a   Baumann, Linda ^a   Hess, Justin M ^a   Falk, Bryce W ^a   Ng, James C K ^a   Gullan, Penny J ^a   Baumann, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; RNA 23S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BERMISIA TABACI; CHLAMYDIA; DNA DETERMINATION; ERIOCOCCUS SPURIUS; FRITSCHEA BEMISIAE; FRITSCHEA ERIOCOCCI; INSECT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMKANIACEAE; WHITEFLY; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEMISTRY; CHLAMYDIACEAE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETICS; HEMIPTERA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NOMENCLATURE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ALEYRODIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BEMISIA; BEMISIA TABACI; CHLAMYDIA; ERIOCOCCIDAE; ERIOCOCCUS; FRITSCHEA; FRITSCHEA BEMISIAE; FRITSCHEA ERIOCOCCI; INSECTA; PROKARYOTA; RICKETTSIALES; SIMKANIACEAE; STERNORRHYNCHA;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CHLAMYDIALES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEMIPTERA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0038500848     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-002-3953-9     Document Type: Article

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