An Acanthamoeba sp. containing two phylogenetically different bacterial endosymbionts

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1604-1609

  Heinz, Eva ^a   Kolarov, Irina ^a   Kästner, Christian ^a   Toenshoff, Elena R ^a   Wagner, Michael ^a   Horn, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SYMBIOSIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ANIMALS; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA SP.; ACANTHAMOEBIDAE; AMOEBA (GENUS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHLAMYDIAE; PARACHLAMYDIA; PROCABACTER;

EID: 34248585955     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01268.x     Document Type: Article

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