Uniting the classification of cultured and uncultured bacteria and archaea using 16S rRNA gene sequences

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 635-645

  Yarza, Pablo ^a,b,c   Yilmaz, Pelin ^b   Pruesse, Elmar ^b   Glöckner, Frank Oliver ^b,d   Ludwig, Wolfgang ^e   Schleifer, Karl Heinz ^e   Whitman, William B ^f   Euzéby, Jean ^g   Amann, Rudolf ^b   Rosselló Móra, Ramon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c RIBOCON GMBH   (Germany)

^d JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; PHYLOGENY; RIBOTYPING; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84906272014     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro3330     Document Type: Article

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