Mycoplasma and Eperythrozoon (Mycoplasmataceae). Comments on a recent paper

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 13-14

  Uilenberg, Gerrit ^a,b,d   Thiaucourt, François ^a   Jongejan, Frans ^b,c  

^a CIRAD   (France)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^d NONE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

FAMILIA; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENUS; LETTER; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMATACEAE; MYCOPLASMATALES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORDO; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYTOPLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEROTYPE; TAXON; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMATACEAE; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CANDIDATUS PHYTOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMATACEAE; MYCOPLASMATALES;

EID: 31344452610     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.63998-0     Document Type: Letter

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