Phylogenetic and morphologic complexity of giant sulphur bacteria

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 169-186

  Salman, Verena ^a   Bailey, Jake V ^b   Teske, Andreas ^a  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Beggiatoaceae; Classification; Identification; Morphotypes; Phylotypes; Reductive division

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBON DIOXIDE; POLYHYDROXYALKANOIC ACID; POLYPHOSPHATE; RNA 16S; SULFUR;

ACHROMATIUM; ADAPTATION; ARCHAEON; AUTOTROPH; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BEGGIATOA ALBA; BOOTSTRAPPING; CELL BUDDING; CELL DIVISION; CELL VACUOLE; CHROMATIUM; CLADISTICS; CYANOBACTERIUM; CYTOPLASM; DAUGHTER CELL; EUKARYOTE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GIANT SULPHUR BACTERIUM; HETEROTROPH; LEUCOTHRIX; LEUCOTRICHACEAE; LIFE CYCLE; LITHOTROPH; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; MINERALIZATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MORPHOTYPE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PHYLOGENY; PLEUROCAPSALEAN CYANOBACTERIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMIC RANK; THIOMARGARITA; THIOMARGARITA JOERGENSENII; THIOMARGARITA NAMIBIENSIS; THIOMARGARITA NELSONII; THIOTHRIX; THIOTRICHACEAE; TRICHOME;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SULFUR; THIOTRICHACEAE; VACUOLES;

THIOTRICHACEAE;

EID: 84879883975     PISSN: 00036072     EISSN: 15729699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10482-013-9952-y     Document Type: Review

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