Characterization of Romboutsia ilealis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the gastro-intestinal tract of a rat, and proposal for the reclassification of five closely related members of the genus Clostridium into the genera Romboutsia gen. nov., Intestinibacter gen. nov., Terrisporobacter gen. nov. and Asaccharospora gen. nov

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue PART 5, 2014, Pages 1600-1616

  Gerritsen, Jacoline ^a,b   Fuentes, Susana ^a,b   Grievink, Wieke ^a   van Niftrik, Laura ^c   Tindall, Brian J ^d   Timmerman, Harro M ^b,e,h   Rijkers, Ger T ^e,f,g,i   Smidt, Hauke ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b WINCLOVE PROBIOTICS   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

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

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^f ST ANTONIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^g RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^h NIZO FOOD RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

ⁱ University College Roosevelt   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; GLYCOLIPID; LANTHIONINE; MENAQUINONE; PHOSPHOLIPID; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; ASACCHAROSPORA IRREGULARIS; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM BARTLETTII; CLOSTRIDIUM BUTYRICUM; CLOSTRIDIUM GLYCOLICUM; CLOSTRIDIUM IRREGULARE; CLOSTRIDIUM LITUSEBURENSE; CLOSTRIDIUM MAYOMBEI; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINIBACTER BARTLETTII; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS ANAEROBIUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROMBOUTSIA ILEALIS; ROMBOUTSIA LITUSEBURENSIS; TERRISPOROBACTER GLYCOLICUS; TERRISPOROBACTER MAYOMBEI;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BASE COMPOSITION; DNA, BACTERIAL; FATTY ACIDS; GLYCOLIPIDS; GRAM-POSITIVE ENDOSPORE-FORMING RODS; ILEUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PHYLOGENY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VITAMIN K 2;

EID: 84900011734     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.059543-0     Document Type: Article

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