Attachment organelle ultrastructure correlates with phylogeny, not gliding motility properties, in Mycoplasma pneumoniae relatives

Microbiology

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 286-295

  Hatchel, Jennifer M ^a   Balish, Mitchell F ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL MOTILITY; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE CLUSTER; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; LOCOMOTION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MYCOPLASMA; ORGANELLES;

MYCOPLASMA IMITANS; MYCOPLASMA PIRUM; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; MYCOPLASMA TESTUDINIS; MYCOPLASMATALES;

EID: 38849184101     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/012765-0     Document Type: Article

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