Defining bacterial species in the genomic era: Insights from the genus Acinetobacter

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Chan, Jacqueline Z M ^a   Halachev, Mihail R ^a   Loman, Nicholas J ^a   Constantinidou, Chrystala ^a   Pallen, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Genome based taxonomy; Sequence based analysis; Whole genome data

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER BEREZINIAE; ACINETOBACTER CALCOACETICUS; ACINETOBACTER LWOFFII; ACINETOBACTER NOSOCOMIALIS; ACINETOBACTER PARVUS; ACINETOBACTER PITTII; ACINETOBACTER RADIORESISTENS; ACINETOBACTER URSINGII; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MORAXELLACEAE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; TAXONOMY;

ACINETOBACTER; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLASSIFICATION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, RRNA; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 84872836707     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-12-302     Document Type: Article

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