Diversity of bacterial endosymbionts of environmental Acanthamoeba isolates

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 5822-5831

  Schmitz Esser, Stephan ^a   Toenshoff, Elena R ^a   Haider, Susanne ^a   Heinz, Eva ^a   Hoenninger, Verena M ^a   Wagner, Michael ^a   Horn, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACANTHAMOEBA; FREE-LIVING AMOEBAE; GLOBAL DISTRIBUTIONS; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS;

BACTERIOLOGY;

RNA 16S; RNA 18S; BACTERIAL DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANCESTRY; BACTERIUM; ENDOSYMBIONT; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; PHYLOGENETICS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; ACANTHAMOEBA POLYPHAGA; ACANTHAMOEBA PUSTULOSA; ACANTHAMOEBA ROYREBA; ARTICLE; ENDOSYMBIONT; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOON; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; RNA GENE; SEDIMENT; SYMBIOSIS;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ACANTHAMOEBA; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENES, RRNA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 52649161364     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01093-08     Document Type: Article

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