Microbial genomic taxonomy

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Thompson, Cristiane C ^a   Chimetto, Luciane ^a   Edwards, Robert A ^b   Swings, Jean ^c   Stackebrandt, Erko ^d   Thompson, Fabiano L ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

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

Author keywords

Evolution; Genomics; Microbes; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA 16S;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; COMPUTER MODEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MONOPHYLY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TAXONOMY;

BACTERIA; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84890630720     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-913     Document Type: Note

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