The reach of the genome signature in prokaryotes

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Van Passel, Mark W J ^a,b,c   Kuramae, Eiko E ^a   Luyf, Angela C M ^b   Bart, Aldert ^b   Boekhout, Teun ^a  

^a CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DINUCLEOTIDE; DNA 16S; RIBOSOME DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BUCHNERA APHIDICOLA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; PROKARYOTE; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS PALUSTRIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL GENOME; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

BARTONELLA; BORDETELLA; BUCHNERA APHIDICOLA; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS PALUSTRIS; SALMONELLA; YERSINIA;

BACTERIA; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33750300550     PISSN: 14712148     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-6-84     Document Type: Article

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