Geobacillus debilis sp. nov., a novel obligately thermophilic bacterium isolated from a cool soil environment, and reassignment of Bacillus pallidus to Geobacillus pallidus comb. nov

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2197-2201

  Banat, Ibrahim M ^a   Marchant, Roger ^a   Rahman, Thahira J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS PALLIDUS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOBACILLUS CALDOXYLOSILYTICUS; GEOBACILLUS DEBILIS; GEOBACILLUS PALLIDUS; GEOBACILLUS TOEBII; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; IRELAND; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOIL; SPOROGENESIS; TAXONOMY; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

AEROBIOSIS; BACILLACEAE; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; GENTIAN VIOLET; HEAT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOVEMENT; NORTHERN IRELAND; PHENAZINES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TEMPERATURE;

BACILLUS PALLIDUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GEOBACILLUS; GEOBACILLUS CALDOXYLOSILYTICUS; GEOBACILLUS TOEBII; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 9944257028     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.63231-0     Document Type: Article

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