Acidobacteria form a coherent but highly diverse group within the bacterial domain: Evidence from environmental genomics

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 563-575

  Quaiser, Achim ^a   Ochsenreiter, Torsten ^a   Lanz, Christa ^b   Schuster, Stephan C ^b   Treusch, Alexander H ^a   Eck, Jürgen ^c   Schleper, Christa ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c BRAIN AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; DNA LIBRARY; EVOLUTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TRANSFER; GENOMICS; IMPERIUM; LINEAR DICHROISM; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; PHYLUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIALES; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS PALUSTRIS; SOIL;

BACTERIA; EVOLUTION; GENE LIBRARY; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ACIDOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRADYRHIZOBIUM; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; INSERTION SEQUENCES; PROKARYOTA; RHIZOBIALES; RHIZOBIUM; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS PALUSTRIS;

EID: 0042126088     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03707.x     Document Type: Article

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