Shigella Strains Are Not Clones of Escherichia coli but Sister Species in the Genus Escherichia

Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 61-65

  Zuo, Guanghong ^a,b   Xu, Zhao ^a,c   Hao, Bailin ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (China)

^c Applied Biosystems Trading Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

Composition vector; CVTree; Escherichia coli; Prokaryote phylogeny and taxonomy; Shigella

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; ENDOSYMBIONT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SHIGELLA BOYDII; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLA SONNEI;

ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PHYLOGENY; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA BOYDII; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SHIGELLA SONNEI;

ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA BOYDII; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SHIGELLA SONNEI;

EID: 84875379461     PISSN: 16720229     EISSN: 22103244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gpb.2012.11.002     Document Type: Article

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