Genomic insights into the taxonomic status of the Bacillus cereus group

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Liu, Yang ^a   Lai, Qiliang ^a   Göker, Markus ^b   Meier Kolthoff, Jan P ^b   Wang, Meng ^c   Sun, Yamin ^c   Wang, Lei ^c   Shao, Zongze ^a  

^a State Oceanic Administration   (China)

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

^c NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BACILLUS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CLASSIFICATION; DNA BARCODING; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES;

BACILLUS; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84941753196     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep14082     Document Type: Article

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