'Candidatus Protochlamydia amoebophila', an endosymbiont of Acanthamoeba spp

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1863-1866

  Collingro, Astrid ^a   Toenshoff, Elena R ^a   Taylor, Michael W ^a   Fritsche, Thomas R ^b   Wagner, Michael ^a   Horn, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Jones Group/JMI Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; DNA 23S; PANCREATIC RIBONUCLEASE; RIBONUCLEASE; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RNA 16S;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CELL COMPOSITION; CHLAMYDIACEAE; ENDOSYMBIONT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; NEW GENUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTOCHLAMYDIA AMOEBOPHILA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ANIMALS; CHLAMYDIALES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RIBONUCLEASE P; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SYMBIOSIS;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA SP.; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIAE; EUKARYOTA; PARACHLAMYDIA ACANTHAMOEBAE; PARACHLAMYDIACEAE;

EID: 26244463780     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.63572-0     Document Type: Article

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