The ecological coherence of high bacterial taxonomic ranks

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 523-529

  Philippot, Laurent ^a   Andersson, Siv G E ^b   Battin, Tom J ^c   Prosser, James I ^d   Schimel, Joshua P ^e   Whitman, William B ^f   Hallin, Sara ^g  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^g SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM; CYANOBACTERIUM; ECOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUFFER FISH; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; METAGENOME; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77953619002     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2367     Document Type: Review

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