Burkholderia species are ancient symbionts of legumes

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 44-52

  Bontemps, Cyril ^a   Elliott, Geoffrey N ^b   Simon, Marcelo F ^c   Dos Reis Júnior, Fábio B ^d   Gross, Eduardo ^e   Lawton, Rebecca C ^a   Neto, Nicolau Elias ^f   De FÁtima Loureiro, Maria ^f   De Faria, Sergio M ^g   Sprent, Janet I ^h   James, Euan K ^b   Young, J Peter W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c EMBRAPA RECURSOS GENÉTICOS E BIOTECNOLOGIA   (Brazil)

^d EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^e DEPARTAMENTO DE CIÊNCIAS BIOLÓGICAS   (Brazil)

^f FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO   (Brazil)

^g EMBRAPA AGROBIOLOGIA   (Brazil)

^h UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Brazil; Mimosa; Nitrogen fixation; Rhizobia

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BRAZIL; BURKHOLDERIA; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIMOSA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS;

BRAZIL; BURKHOLDERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GEOGRAPHY; MIMOSA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS;

BURKHOLDERIA; MIMOSA;

EID: 72849110050     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04458.x     Document Type: Article

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