Reclassification of Sphaerobacter thermophilus from the subclass Sphaerobacteridae in the phylum Actinobacteria to the class Thermomicrobia (emended description) in the phylum Chloroflexi (emended description)

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2049-2051

  Hugenholtz, Philip ^a,c   Stackebrandt, Erko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

^c DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; DNA CONTENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPHAEROBACTER THERMOPHILUS;

ACTINOBACTERIA; CHLOROFLEXI; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACTINOBACTERIA; CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS); POSIBACTERIA; SPHAEROBACTER; SPHAEROBACTER THERMOPHILUS; SPHAEROBACTERIDAE; THERMOMICROBIA; THERMOMICROBIUM ROSEUM;

EID: 9744250905     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.03028-0     Document Type: Article

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