Evolutionary genetics and biogeographic structure of Rhizobium gallicum sensu lato, a widely distributed bacterial symbiont of diverse legumes

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 4033-4050

  Silva, Claudia ^a   Vinuesa, Pablo ^a   Eguiarte, Luis E ^b   Souza, Valeria ^b   Martínez Romero, Esperanza ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Bacterial systematics; Biogeography; Ecotypes; Migration; Recombination; Species concept

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM GALLICUM; RHIZOBIUM MONGOLENSE; RHIZOBIUM YANGLINGENSE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; LEGUME; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; RHIZOBIUM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYMBIOSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FABACEAE; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RHIZOBIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 33646167708     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2005.02721.x     Document Type: Article

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