Isolates of 'Candidatus Nostocoida limicola' Blackall et al. 2000 should be described as three novel species of the genus Tetrasphaera, as Tetrasphaera jenkinsii sp. nov., Tetrasphaera vanveenii sp. nov. and Tetrasphaera veronensis sp. nov

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2279-2290

  McKenzie, C M ^a   Seviour, E M ^a   Schumann, P ^b   Maszenan, A M ^a,e   Liu, J R ^a,f   Webb, R I ^c   Monis, P ^d   Saint, C P ^d   Steiner, U ^b   Seviour, R J ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN WATER QUALITY CENTRE   (Australia)

^e NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^f RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; LIPID; MENAQUINONE; RNA 16S; RNA 23S;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CELL WALL; CHEMOTAXONOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; LIPID ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NOSTOCOIDA LIMICOLA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA FINGERPRINTING; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TETRASPHAERA AUSTRALIENSIS; TETRASPHAERA ELONGATA; TETRASPHAERA JAPONICA; TETRASPHAERA JENKINSII; TETRASPHAERA VANVEENII; TETRASPHAERA VERONENSIS;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOMYCETALES; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEWAGE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS NOSTOCOIDA LIMICOLA; INTRASPORANGIACEAE; TETRASPHAERA; TETRASPHAERA AUSTRALIENSIS; TETRASPHAERA ELONGATA; TETRASPHAERA JAPONICA; TETRASPHAERA JENKINSII; TETRASPHAERA VERONENSIS;

EID: 33750029346     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.63978-0     Document Type: Article

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