Molecular evidence for association between the sphingobacterium-like organism 'Candidatus comitans' and the myxobacterium Chondromyces crocatus

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 719-723

  Jacobi, Christoph A ^a,d   Aßmus, Bernhard ^c   Reichenbach, Hans ^b   Stackebrandt, Erko ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DNA LIBRARY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYXOCOCCALES; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0343036269     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.2.719-723.1997     Document Type: Article

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