"Candidatus anadelfobacter veles" and "candidatus cyrtobacter comes," two new rickettsiales species hosted by the protist ciliate euplotes harpa (ciliophora, spirotrichea)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 4047-4054

  Vannini, Claudia ^a   Ferrantini, Filippo ^a   Schleifer, Karl Heinz ^b   Ludwig, Wolfgang ^b   Verni, Franco ^a   Petroni, Giulio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; 16S RRNA GENE SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL SYMBIONTS; HOST-SPECIFICITY; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS;

BACTERIOLOGY; CYTOLOGY; GENES; RNA;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; CILIATE; CLADISTICS; CYTOPLASM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOST RANGE; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; MEMBRANE; MITOCHONDRION; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS; TAXONOMY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYTOPLASM; DNA SEQUENCE; EUPLOTES; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYTOPLASM; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EUPLOTES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANAPLASMATACEAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CILIOPHORA; EUPLOTES; EUPLOTES HARPA; HOLOSPORACEAE; PROKARYOTA; PROTISTA; RICKETTSIACEAE; RICKETTSIALES; SPIROTRICHEA;

EID: 77953641399     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03105-09     Document Type: Article

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