Two types of endosymbiotic bacteria in the enigmatic marine worm xenoturbella bocki

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2657-2662

  Kjeldsen, Kasper Urup ^a,b   Obst, Matthias ^a,b   Nakano, Hiroaki ^a,b   Funch, Peter ^a,b   Schramm, Andreas ^a,b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b GÖTEBORG UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILATERIA; ENDOSYMBIOTIC BACTERIUM; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GASTRODERMIS; MARINE INVERTEBRATES;

BACTERIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; ENDOSYMBIONT; INVERTEBRATE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PATHOGEN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; CHEMISTRY; CHLAMYDIA; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENETICS; INVERTEBRATE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CHLAMYDIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; INVERTEBRATES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BILATERIA; CHLAMYDIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; INVERTEBRATA; SIPUNCULUS NUDUS; XENOTURBELLA; XENOTURBELLA BOCKI; XENOTURBELLIDA;

EID: 77950580094     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01092-09     Document Type: Article

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