Characterization of " Candidatus nebulobacter yamunensis" from the cytoplasm of euplotes aediculatus (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea) and emended description of the family Francisellaceae

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 432-440

  Boscaro, Vittorio ^a   Vannini, Claudia ^a   Fokin, Sergei I ^a   Verni, Franco ^a   Petroni, Giulio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bacterial symbiont; Caedibacter; Euplotes; Fangia; FISH; Francisella; Francisellaceae; Molecular phylogeny; SSU rRNA; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CANDIDATUS NEBULOBACTER YAMUNENSIS; CULTIVATED SPECIES; CYTOPLASM; ENDOSYMBIONT; EUPLOTES; EUPLOTES AEDICULATUS; FRANCISELLACEAE; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE SEQUENCE; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAXON; THIOTRICHALES; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYTOPLASM; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EUPLOTES; FRANCISELLA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAEDIBACTER; CILIOPHORA; EUKARYOTA; EUPLOTES; EUPLOTES AEDICULATUS; FRANCISELLA; FRANCISELLACEAE; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; RICKETTSIACEAE; SPIROTRICHEA; THIOTRICHALES;

EID: 84868706133     PISSN: 07232020     EISSN: 16180984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2012.07.003     Document Type: Article

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