Molecular systematics of rhizobia based on maximum likelihood and Bayesian phylogenies inferred from rrs, atpD, recA and nifH sequences, and their use in the classification of Sesbania microsymbionts from Venezuelan wetlands

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 702-716

  Vinuesa, Pablo ^a   Silva, Claudia ^a   Lorite, María José ^b   Izaguirre Mayoral, María Luisa ^c   Bedmar, Eulogio J ^b   Martínez Romero, Esperanza ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas Centro de Microbiologia y Biologia Celular   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Bayesian phylogenetics; Maximum likelihood; Mesorhizobium plurifarium; Molecular systematics; Nitrogen fixation; Plasmids; Recombination; Rhizobium huautlense; Sesbania

Indexed keywords

RECA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BAYES THEOREM; GENBANK; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MODEL; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; INHERITANCE; LEGUME; MESORHIZOBIUM; MESORHIZOBIUM PLURIFARUM; MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS; MOSAICISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLANT; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RHIZOBIACEAE; RHIZOBIUM GALEGAE; RHIZOBIUM GALLICUM; RHIZOBIUM HUAUTLENSE; RHIZOBIUM MONGOLENSE; RHIZOBIUM YANGLINGENSE; SESBANIA EXASPERATA; SESBANIA PUNICEA; SESBANIA SERICEA; TAXON; TAXONOMY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VENEZUELA; WETLAND;

MESORHIZOBIUM; MESORHIZOBIUM PLURIFARIUM; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM GALEGAE; RHIZOBIUM GALLICUM; RHIZOBIUM HUAUTLENSE; RHIZOBIUM MONGOLENSE; RHIZOBIUM YANGLINGENSE; SESBANIA; SESBANIA EXASPERATA; SESBANIA PUNICEA; SESBANIA SERICEA;

EID: 25144442706     PISSN: 07232020     EISSN: 16180984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2005.05.007     Document Type: Article

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