Species in Wolbachia? Proposal for the designation of 'Candidatus Wolbachia bourtzisii', 'Candidatus Wolbachia onchocercicola', 'Candidatus Wolbachia blaxteri', 'Candidatus Wolbachia brugii', 'Candidatus Wolbachia taylori', 'Candidatus Wolbachia collembolicola' and 'Candidatus Wolbachia multihospitum' for the different species within Wolbachia supergroups

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 390-399

  Ramírez Puebla, Shamayim T ^a   Servín Garcidueñas, Luis E ^a   Ormeño Orrillo, Ernesto ^a   Vera Ponce de León, Arturo ^a   Rosenblueth, Mónica ^a   Delaye, Luis ^b   Martínez, Julio ^a   Martínez Romero, Esperanza ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

ANI; DDH; Wolbachia Candidatus; Wolbachia supergroups; Wolbachia taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AVERAGE NUCLEOTIDE IDENTITY; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CANDIDATUS WOLBACHIA BLAXTERI; CANDIDATUS WOLBACHIA BRUGII; CANDIDATUS WOLBACHIA COLLEMBOLICOLA; CANDIDATUS WOLBACHIA MULTIHOSPITUM; CANDIDATUS WOLBACHIA ONCHOCERCICOLA; CANDIDATUS WOLBACHIA TAYLORI; COMPUTER MODEL; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENOMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WOLBACHIA; WOLBACHIA PIPIENTIS; ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEMATODE; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PROCEDURES;

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BASE COMPOSITION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEMATODA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84966458717     PISSN: 07232020     EISSN: 16180984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2015.05.005     Document Type: Article

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