Description of Bacillus toyonensis sp. nov., a novel species of the Bacillus cereus group, and pairwise genome comparisons of the species of the group by means of ANI calculations

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 383-391

  Jiménez, Guillermo ^a   Urdiain, Mercedes ^b   Cifuentes, Ana ^b   López López, Aránzazu ^b   Blanch, Anicet R ^c   Tamames, Javier ^d   Kämpfer, Peter ^e   Kolstø, Anne Brit ^f   Ramón, Daniel ^g   Martínez, Juan F ^g   Codoñer, Francisco M ^g   Rosselló Móra, Ramon ^b  

^a Rubinum SA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^e JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^g Lifesequencing SL   (Spain)

Author keywords

ANI; Bacillus cereus group; Genome comparisons; Polyphasic taxonomy; Probiotic

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS TOYONENSIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; CALCULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRAIT; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPARISON; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALIA; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS CEREUS GROUP; BACILLUS MYCOIDES; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACILLUS WEIHENSTEPHANENSIS; BOS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; SUIDAE;

EID: 84881665892     PISSN: 07232020     EISSN: 16180984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.04.008     Document Type: Article

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