Detection of a Novel Subspecies of Francisella noatunensis as Endosymbiont of the Ciliate Euplotes raikovi

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 455-464

  Schrallhammer, Martina ^a,d   Schweikert, Michael ^b   Vallesi, Adriana ^c   Verni, Franco ^a   Petroni, Giulio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^d DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EUPLOTES; FRANCISELLA; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

DNA, BACTERIAL; EUPLOTES; FRANCISELLA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CILIOPHORA; EUPLOTES; EUPLOTES RAIKOVI; FRANCISELLA; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; PROTISTA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 79951513896     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-010-9772-9     Document Type: Article

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