Reclassification of Rhizobium tropici type A strains as Rhizobium leucaenae sp. nov

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1179-1184

  Ribeiro, Renan Augusto ^a,b   Roge, Marco A ^c   López López, Aline ^c   Ormeño Orrillo, Ernesto ^a   Barcellos, Fernando Gomes ^d   Martínez, Julio ^c   Thompson, Fabiano Lopes ^e   Martínez Romero, Esperanza ^c   Hungria, Mariangela ^a  

^a EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF LONDRINA   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSIDADE PARANAENSE   (Brazil)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM LEUCAENAE; RHIZOBIUM LUSITANUM; RHIZOBIUM MILUONENSE; RHIZOBIUM MULTIHOSPITIUM; RHIZOBIUM RHIZOGENE; RHIZOBIUM TROPICI; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHYLOGENY; RHIZOBIUM TROPICI; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AGROBACTERIUM RHIZOGENES; GLIRICIDIA SEPIUM; LEUCAENA ESCULENTA; LEUCAENA LEUCOCEPHALA; PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM LUSITANUM; RHIZOBIUM TROPICI;

EID: 84860732105     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.032912-0     Document Type: Article

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