Evaluation of the phylogenetic position of the sulfate-reducing bacterium Thermodesulfovibrio yellowstonii (phylum Nitrospirae) by means of gene order data from completely sequenced genomes

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1090-1102

  Kunisawa, Takashi ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDOBACTERIA; AQUIFICAE; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDETES; CHLOROBI; EVALUATION; GENE ORDER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLUM; PLANCTOMYCETES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; SPIROCHAETES; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM; THERMODESULFOVIBRIO YELLOWSTONII; VERRUCOMICROBIA;

BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE ORDER; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SULFATES; SULFUR-REDUCING BACTERIA;

ACIDOBACTERIA; AQUIFICAE; AQUIFICAE (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; CHLOROBI; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; ISOPTERA; NITROSPIRAE; PLANCTOMYCETES; PROTEOBACTERIA; SPIROCHAETES; THERMODESULFOVIBRIO YELLOWSTONII; VERRUCOMICROBIA;

EID: 77952724095     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.014266-0     Document Type: Article

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