Rhodococcus jostii: A home for Rhodococcus strain RHA1

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 435-440

  Jones, Amanda L ^a,b   Davies, Julian ^c   Fukuda, Masao ^d   Brown, Roselyn ^b   Lim, Jesmine ^a   Goodfellow, Michael ^b  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Polyphasic taxonomy; Rhodococcus jostii; Rhodococcus strain RHA1

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHEMOTAXONOMY; CLADISTICS; GENUS; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS ERYTHROPOLIS; RHODOCOCCUS JOSTII; RHODOCOCCUS STRAIN RHA1; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS ERYTHROPOLIS; RHODOCOCCUS JOSTII;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; RHODOCOCCUS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84882281997     PISSN: 00036072     EISSN: 15729699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10482-013-9958-5     Document Type: Article

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