Phylogeny and shared conserved inserts in proteins provide evidence that Verrucomicrobia are the closest known free-living relatives of chlamydiae

Microbiology

Volumn 153, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2648-2654

  Griffiths, Emma ^a   Gupta, Radhey S ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING) B; LYSINE TRANSFER RNA SYNTHETASE; RNA POLYMERASE BETA SUBUNIT; SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BRANCHING MORPHOGENESIS; CHLAMYDIACEAE; GENE INSERTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLANCTOMYCETES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAXONOMIC RANK; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VERRUCOMICROBIA; VERRUCOMICROBIUM SPINOSUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA GYRASE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; LYSINE-TRNA LIGASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIAE; CHLAMYDIALES; PLANCTOMYCETES; VERRUCOMICROBIA; VERRUCOMICROBIUM; VERRUCOMICROBIUM SPINOSUM;

EID: 34547910719     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/009118-0     Document Type: Article

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