Phylogenetic analysis of different isolates of Sulfobacillus spp. isolated from uranium-rich environments and recovery of genes using integron-specific primers

Extremophiles

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 341-345

  Ghauri, Muhammad A ^a,b   Khalid, Ahmad M ^b   Grant, Susan ^a   Heaphy, Shaun ^a   Grant, William D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY AND GENETIC ENGINEERING NIBGE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

16S rDNA analysis; Acidophilic moderate thermophiles; Gene cassettes; Integrons; Uranium rich environments

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SULFOBACILLUS; SULFOBACILLUS THERMOSULFIDOOXIDANS;

PRIMER DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL GENE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INTEGRON; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACILLUS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; INTEGRONS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 3042783435     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: 14334909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-003-0354-3     Document Type: Article

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