'Candidatus Megaira polyxenophila' gen. nov., sp. nov.: Considerations on Evolutionary History, Host Range and Shift of Early Divergent Rickettsiae

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Schrallhammer, Martina ^a,b,c   Ferrantini, Filippo ^a   Vannini, Claudia ^a   Galati, Stefano ^a   Schweikert, Michael ^b   Görtz, Hans Dieter ^b   Verni, Franco ^a   Petroni, Giulio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ALVEOLATA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CANDIDATUS MEGAIRA; CARTERIA CERASIFORMIS; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CHLOROPHYCEAE; CILIATE; CYTOPLASM; DIOPHRYS OLIGOTHRIX; EUPLOTES OCTOCARINATUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GREEN ALGA; HOST RANGE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARAMECIUM CAUDATUM; PHYLOGENY; PLEODORINA JAPONICA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIALES; RICKETTSIOSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPIROSTOMUM; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; RICKETTSIACEAE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYMBIOSIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIATION; HOST SPECIFICITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RIBOSOME SUBUNITS; RICKETTSIACEAE; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84882667063     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072581     Document Type: Article

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