Diversity of Frankia populations in root nodules of geographically isolated Arizona alder trees in central Arizona (United States)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 6913-6918

  Welsh, Allana K ^a   Dawson, Jeffrey O ^b   Gottfried, Gerald J ^c   Hahn, Dittmar ^a  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDER TREE; ARIZONA; CLUSTERING METHODS; COMPARATIVE SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; GENE FRAGMENTS; GENOMIC GROUPS; MICRODIVERSITY; ROOT NODULES; THRESHOLD LEVELS;

NUCLEOTIDES;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; ISOLATED POPULATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOUNTAIN REGION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TREE;

ALDER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRANKIA; GENE CLUSTER; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ALNUS; ARIZONA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FRANKIA; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALNUS OBLONGIFOLIA; FRANKIA;

EID: 70350516507     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01103-09     Document Type: Article

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