Analysis of bifidobacterial evolution using a multilocus approach

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2783-2792

  Ventura, Marco ^a,b   Canchaya, Carlos ^a   Del Casale, Antonio ^c   Dellaglio, Franco ^c   Neviani, Erasmo ^b   Fitzgerald, Gerald F ^a   van Sinderen, Douwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

AMPLIFIED RIBOSOMAL DNA RESTRICTION ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, RRNA; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BIFIDOBACTERIUM;

EID: 33845808750     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.64233-0     Document Type: Article

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