Betaproteobacterial symbionts of the ciliate Euplotes: Origin and tangled evolutionary path of an obligate microbial association

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2553-2563

  Vannini, Claudia ^a   Ferrantini, Filippo ^a   Ristori, Alessandro ^a   Verni, Franco ^a   Petroni, Giulio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; RNA 18S;

ARTICLE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CLASSIFICATION; EUPLOTES; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; EUPLOTES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CILIOPHORA; EUPLOTES; POLYNUCLEOBACTER; POLYNUCLEOBACTER NECESSARIUS;

EID: 84865793899     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2012.02760.x     Document Type: Article

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