Candidatus Syngnamydia Venezia, a Novel Member of the Phylum Chlamydiae from the Broad Nosed Pipefish, Syngnathus typhle

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Fehr, Alexander ^a   Walther, Elisabeth ^a   Schmidt Posthaus, Heike ^b   Nufer, Lisbeth ^a   Wilson, Anthony ^a   Svercel, Miroslav ^a   Richter, Denis ^a   Segner, Helmut ^b   Pospischil, Andreas ^a   Vaughan, Lloyd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CANDIDATUS SYNGNAMYDIA VENEZIA; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIOCYSTIS; FISH; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLUM; SYNGNATHUS TYPHLE;

ANIMALS; CHLAMYDIA; FISH DISEASES; GILLS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SMEGMAMORPHA;

EID: 84881509288     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070853     Document Type: Article

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