Genotype versus phenotype in the circumscription of bacterial species: The case of Pseudomonas stutzeri and Pseudomonas chloritidismutans

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 184, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 353-361

  Cladera, Aina Maria ^a,b   García Valdés, Elena ^a,b   Lalucat, Jorge ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Denitrification; Multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA); P. chloritidismutans; P. stutzeri

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS CHLORITIDISMUTANS; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; SPECIES;

CHLORATES; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATES; PHENOTYPE; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS CHLORITIDISMUTANS; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI;

EID: 30844460335     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-005-0052-x     Document Type: Article

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