The All-Species Living Tree project: A 16S rRNA-based phylogenetic tree of all sequenced type strains

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 241-250

  Yarza, Pablo ^a   Richter, Michael ^a   Peplies, Jörg ^b   Euzeby, Jean ^c   Amann, Rudolf ^d   Schleifer, Karl Heinz ^e   Ludwig, Wolfgang ^e   Glöckner, Frank Oliver ^d,f   Rosselló Móra, Ramon ^a  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b RIBOCON GMBH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; ARB; Classification; Living tree; Phylogeny; Species; SSU; Taxa boundaries; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM; CALCULATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE CONSTRUCTION METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; INTERNET; PHYLOGENY; RIBOTYPING; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 52149085893     PISSN: 07232020     EISSN: 16180984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2008.07.001     Document Type: Article

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