A re-evaluation of the taxonomy of phytopathogenic genera Dickeya and Pectobacterium using whole-genome sequencing data

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 252-259

  Zhang, Yucheng ^a   Fan, Qiurong ^b   Loria, Rosemary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b FUJIAN AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

ANI; DDH; Dickeya; Pectobacterium; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; COMPUTER MODEL; DICKEYA; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PECTOBACTERIUM; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAXONOMY; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PECTOBACTERIUM; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84964589329     PISSN: 07232020     EISSN: 16180984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2016.04.001     Document Type: Article

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