Comparative and Phylogenomic Evidence That the Alphaproteobacterium HIMB59 Is Not a Member of the Oceanic SAR11 Clade

SAR11 is a globally abundant group of Alphaproteobacteria in the oceans that is taxonomically not well defined. It has been suggested SAR11 should be classified into the novel order Pelagibacterales. Features such as conservation of gene content and synteny have been taken as evidence that also the...

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Main Authors: Viklund, Johan, Martijn, Joran, Ettema, Thijs J. G., Andersson, Siv G. E.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3815206/