Reclassification of salt-water Bdellovibrio sp. as Bacteriovorax marinus sp. nov. and Bacteriovorax litoralis sp. nov

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1011-1016

  Baer, Marcie L ^a,b   Ravel, Jacques ^a,c   Piñeiro, Silvia A ^a   Guether Borg, Diana ^a   Williams, Henry N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c The Institute for Genomic Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; CARBENICILLIN; COLISTIN; CYTOSINE; DNA; DNA 16S; GENTAMICIN; GUANINE; KANAMYCIN; METICILLIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; POLYMYXIN B; RNA 16S; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SULTAMICILLIN; VANCOMYCIN; WATER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIOVORAX LITORALIS; BACTERIOVORAX MARINUS; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BDELLOVIBRIO; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ECOTYPE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; GENUS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NEW GENUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALINITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BASE COMPOSITION; BDELLOVIBRIO; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIOVORAX; BACTERIOVORAX LITORALIS; BACTERIOVORAX MARINUS; BACTERIOVORAX STARRII; BACTERIOVORAX STOLPII; BDELLOVIBRIO; BDELLOVIBRIO BACTERIOVORUS; BDELLOVIBRIO SP.; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 4344666312     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.02458-0     Document Type: Article

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