Surprisingly extensive mixed phylogenetic and ecological signals among bacterial Operational Taxonomic Units

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 5175-5188

  Koeppel, Alexander F ^a   Wu, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ACIDOVORAX; ACINETOBACTER; ALGORITHM; ANAEROCOCCUS; AQUABACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; CLOACIBACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DIAPHOROBACTER; ECOTYPE; GENUS; HSP60 GENE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MONOPHYLY; NONHUMAN; OPERATIONAL TAXONOMIC UNIT; PARAPHYLY; PHYLOGENY; PHYLUM; POLYPHYLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM; PSAA GENE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; TAXONOMY;

ALGORITHMS; BACTERIA; ECOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); OTUS;

EID: 84878548639     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt241     Document Type: Article

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