MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry is a fast and reliable platform for identification and ecological studies of species from family rhizobiaceae

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Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Ferreira, Laura ^a   Sánchez Juanes, Fernando ^a   García Fraile, Paula ^b   Rivas, Raúl ^b   Mateos, Pedro F ^b   Martínez Molina, Eustoquio ^b   González Buitrago, José Manuel ^a,b   Velázquez, Encarna ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATPD GENE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ENSIFER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENUS; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; RECA GENE; RELIABILITY; RHIZOBIACEAE; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; RHIZOBIUM RUBI; RHIZOBIUM TROPICI; RRS GENE; SHINELLA; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY;

ENSIFER; RHIZOBIACEAE; RHIZOBIUM;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; RHIZOBIACEAE; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

EID: 79957884401     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020223     Document Type: Article

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