Cultivation and characterization of the gut symbionts of honey bees and bumble bees: Description of Snodgrassella alvi gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Neisseriaceae of the betaproteobacteria, and Gilliamella apicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of Orbaceae fam. nov., Orbales ord. nov., a sister taxon to the order 'Enterobacteriales' of the Gammaproteobacteria

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue PART6, 2013, Pages 2008-2018

  Kwong, Waldan K ^a   Moran, Nancy A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; CYTIDINE; GUANINE; PALMITIC ACID; QUINONE DERIVATIVE; RNA 16S; UBIQUINONE; VACCENIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BUMBLEBEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE OPTIMIZATION; ENTEROBACTERIALES; GILLIAMELLA APICOLA; HONEYBEE; NEISSERIACEAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SNODGRASSELLA ALVI;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BASE COMPOSITION; BEES; DNA, BACTERIAL; FATTY ACIDS; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIACEAE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS; UBIQUINONE;

ALYSIELLA; APIS MELLIFERA; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BOMBUS (GENUS); BOMBUS BIMACULATUS; ENTEROBACTERIALES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; HEXAPODA; KINGELLA; NEISSERIACEAE;

EID: 84878887226     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.044875-0     Document Type: Article

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