Reports of Ad Hoc Committees for the Reevaluation of the Species Definition in Bacteriology

Handbook of Molecular Microbial Ecology I: Metagenomics and Complementary Approaches

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 99-104

  Stackebrandt, Erko ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Availability of "minimal standards" use of standardized phenotypic tests; Relationship between DNA DNA similarities and rRNA gene similarities; Reports of ad hoc committees for reevaluation of species definition in bacteriology

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EID: 84886189666     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118010518.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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