Bacillus taxonomy in the genomic era finds phenotypes to be essential though often misleading

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 789-797

  Maughan, Heather ^a   Van der Auwera, Geraldine ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

16S rDNA; Bacillus; Bacillus cereus sensu lato; Bacterial species; Phylogenetics; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S;

BACILLUS; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS CYTOTOXICUS; BACILLUS MYCOIDES; BACILLUS SIMPLEX; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL ENDOSPORE; CELL GROWTH; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENUS; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

BACILLUS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; PHENOTYPE;

BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS CEREUS GROUP; BACILLUS SIMPLEX; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 79956321451     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2011.02.001     Document Type: Review

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