'Candidatus magnetoglobus multicellularis', a multicellular, magnetotactic prokaryote from a hypersaline environment

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1318-1322

  Abreu, Fernanda ^a   Martins, Juliana Lopes ^a   Souza Silveira, Thaís ^a   Keim, Carolina Neumann ^a   Lins de Barros, Henrique G P ^b   Filho, Frederico J Gueiros ^c   Lins, Ulysses ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b CENTRO BRASILEIRO DE PESQUISAS FÍSICAS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BRAZIL; CANDIDATUS MAGNETOGLOBUS MULTICELLULARIS; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL SHAPE; COASTAL WATERS; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TAXONOMIC RANK;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BRAZIL; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FLAGELLA; GENES, RRNA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 34250777928     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.64857-0     Document Type: Article

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