Cutting a Gordian Knot: Emended Classification and Description of the Genus Flavobacterium, Emended Description of the Family Flavobacteriaceae, and Proposal of Flavobacterium hydatis nom. nov. (Basonym, Cytophaga aquatilis Strohl and Tait 1978)

Bernardet, Jean‐François; Segers, Patrick; Vancanneyt, M.; Berthe, Franck; Kersters, K.; Vandamme, Peter

doi:10.1099/00207713-46-1-128

Public

Cutting a Gordian Knot: Emended Classification and Description of the Genus Flavobacterium, Emended Description of the Family Flavobacteriaceae, and Proposal of Flavobacterium hydatis nom. nov. (Basonym, Cytophaga aquatilis Strohl and Tait 1978)

Published in International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology • Jan 1, 1996

Authors:

Jean‐François Bernardet

Patrick Segers

M. Vancanneyt

Abstract

The phylogenetic positions and G+C contents of most species belonging to the genera Flavobacterium, Cytophaga, and Flexibacter and several related taxa were determined. Most of the strains included in this study belong to rRNA superfamily V, as shown by DNA-rRNA hybridization data, but the three mai...

Subject

Flavobacterium

Biology

Cytophaga

Finding related papers...

Discussions

(0)

No comments yet

Be the first to share your thoughts!