Classification and phylogeny of the cyanobiont Anabaena azollae Strasburger: An answered question?

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue PART 6, 2014, Pages 1830-1840

  Pereira, Ana L ^a   Vasconcelos, Vitor ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; RNA 16S;

ANABAENA; ANABAENA AZOLLAE; ANABAENA VARIABILIS; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM EXAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION; COEVOLUTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENUS; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; NOSTOC; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; SPECIES; TRICHORMUS;

ANABAENA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; FERNS; PHYCOCYANIN; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84902652441     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.059238-0     Document Type: Review

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