Names of bacteria and their evolutionary relationships

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1956-1958

  Gest, Howard ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE TRANSFER; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NATURAL SELECTION; NEW COMBINATION (TAXONOMY); NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0041422623     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.C0121-0     Document Type: Article

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