Clostridium sardiniense Prévot 1938 and Clostridium absonum Nakamura et al. 1973 are heterotypic synonyms: Evidence from phylogenetic analyses of phospholipase C and 16S rRNA sequences, and DNA relatedness

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1193-1197

  Wang, Xingmin ^a,b   Maegawa, Tsuneo ^a,c   Karasawa, Tadahiro ^a   Ozaki, Eijiro ^a   Nakamura, Shinichi ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JCS Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; RNA 16S;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM ABSONUM; CLOSTRIDIUM SARDINIENSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLOSTRIDIUM; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TERMINOLOGY;

CLOSTRIDIUM ABSONUM; CLOSTRIDIUM SARDINIENSE;

EID: 19544393176     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.63271-0     Document Type: Article

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