Brucella taxonomy and evolution

Future Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 859-866

  Ficht, Thomas ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotyping; Brucella; Evolution; Speciation; Subcommittee; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BRUCELLA; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEW SPECIES; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TAXONOMY; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; BRUCELLA; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRUCELLA;

EID: 77953244102     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fmb.10.52     Document Type: Review

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