Flagellar movement in two bacteria of the family Rickettsiaceae: A re-evaluation of motility in an evolutionary perspective

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Vannini, Claudia ^a   Boscaro, Vittorio ^a   Ferrantini, Filippo ^a   Benken, Konstantin A ^b   Mironov, Timofei I ^b   Schweikert, Michael ^c   Görtz, Hans Dieter ^c   Fokin, Sergei I ^a,b   Sabaneyeva, Elena V ^b   Petroni, Giulio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CILIATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RICKETTSIACEAE; SPECIES HABITAT;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FLAGELLA; HUMANS; RICKETTSIACEAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84895534229     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087718     Document Type: Article

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