Advantages of multilocus sequence analysis for taxonomic studies: A case study using 10 housekeeping genes in the genus Ensifer (including former Sinorhizobium)

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 200-214

  Martens, Miet ^a   Dawyndt, Peter ^a   Coopman, Renata ^a   Gillis, Monique ^a   De Vos, Paul ^a   Willems, Anne ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING) B; PROTEIN ATPD; PROTEIN DNAK; PROTEIN GAP; PROTEIN GLNA; PROTEIN PNP; PROTEIN THRC; RECA PROTEIN; RNA 16S; RNA 23S; RNA POLYMERASE BETA SUBUNIT; BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ENSIFER; ENSIFER FREDII; ENSIFER XINJIANGENSIS; GENUS; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINORHIZOBIUM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVALUATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; RHIZOBIACEAE; RNA GENE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENSIFER; SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM FREDII; SINORHIZOBIUM XINJIANGENSE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; RHIZOBIACEAE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 40449086789     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.65392-0     Document Type: Article

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