Whole genome-based assessment of the taxonomic position of the arthropod pathogenic bacterium Rickettsiella grylli

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 283, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 117-127

  Leclerque, Andreas ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coxiellaceae; Kishino Hasegawa test; Legionellales; Panorthologous genes; Rickettsiella grylli; Shimodaira Hasegawa test

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; LEGIONELLALES; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RICKETTSIELLA GRYLLI; TAXONOMY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; COXIELLACEAE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COXIELLA; COXIELLACEAE; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLACEAE; LEGIONELLALES; RICKETTSIELLA; RICKETTSIELLA GRYLLI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 42649129358     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2008.01158.x     Document Type: Article

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