Intragenomic heterogeneity between multiple 16S ribosomal RNA operons in sequenced bacterial genomes

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 228, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 45-49

  Coenye, Tom ^a   Vandamme, Peter ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

16S rRNA microheterogeneity; Taxonomy; Whole genome sequence

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0242552653     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00717-1     Document Type: Article

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