A single-cell sequencing approach to the classification of large, vacuolated sulfur bacteria

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 243-259

  Salman, Verena ^a   Amann, Rudolf ^a   Girnth, Anne Christin ^a   Polerecky, Lubos ^a   Bailey, Jake V ^b   Høgslund, Signe ^c   Jessen, Gerdhard ^a   Pantoja, Silvio ^d   Schulz Vogt, Heide N ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

" Candidatus Thiophysa"; " Candidatus Thiopilula"; Beggiatoa; Beggiatoaceae; Thiomargarita; Thioploca

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RNA 16S; SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; CELL VACUOLE; CLASSIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SULFUR BACTERIUM; TAXONOMY; THIOMARGARITA NAMIBIENSIS; THIOPLOCA ARAUCAE; THIOPLOCA CHILEAE; THIOTRICHACEAE;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFUR; THIOTRICHACEAE;

BEGGIATOA; THIOMARGARITA; THIOMARGARITA NAMIBIENSIS; THIOPLOCA; THIOPLOCA ARAUCAE; THIOPLOCA CHILEAE; THIOTRICHACEAE;

EID: 79955467067     PISSN: 07232020     EISSN: 16180984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2011.02.001     Document Type: Article

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