Complete genome sequence of DSM 30083T, the type strain (U5/41T) of Escherichia coli, and a proposal for delineating subspecies in microbial taxonomy

Standards in Genomic Sciences

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Meier Kolthoff, Jan P ^a   Hahnke, Richard L ^a   Petersen, Jörn ^a   Scheuner, Carmen ^a   Michael, Victoria ^a   Fiebig, Anne ^a   Rohde, Christine ^a   Rohde, Manfred ^b   Fartmann, Berthold ^c   Goodwin, Lynne A ^d   Chertkov, Olga ^d   Reddy, TBK ^d   Pati, Amrita ^d   Ivanova, Natalia N ^d   Markowitz, Victor ^d   Kyrpides, Nikos C ^d,e   Woyke, Tanja ^d   Göker, Markus ^a   Klenk, Hans Peter ^a  

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

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c LGC Genomics GmbH   (Germany)

^d DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Clustering; DNA:DNA hybridization; G+C content; GBDP; OPM; Phenotype; Phylogenomics; Phylotypes; Supermatrix

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEON; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENOMICS; PLASMID; RNA GENE; SHIGELLA; SUBSPECIES; TYPE STRAIN;

EID: 84971265000     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19443277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1944-3277-9-2     Document Type: Article

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