'Candidatus Lumbricincola', a novel lineage of uncultured Mollicutes from earthworms of family Lumbricidae

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1016-1026

  Nechitaylo, Taras Y ^a   Timmis, Kenneth N ^a,b   Golyshin, Peter N ^a,c  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; GERMANY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLLICUTES; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; GERMANY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLLICUTES; OLIGOCHAETA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RUSSIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

BACILLI (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS PHYTOPLASMA; CLOSTRIDIA; LUMBRICIDAE; MOLLICUTES;

EID: 63849271825     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01837.x     Document Type: Article

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