Article
Nocardia cerradoensis sp. nov., a novel isolate from Cerrado soil in Brazil.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology - 1 Jan 2003
Albuquerque de Barros Erika V S, Manfio Gilson P, Ribeiro Maitan Valéria, Mendes Bataus Luiz A, Kim Seung Bum, Maldonado Luis A, Goodfellow Michael
Abstract excerpt
An isolate from Cerrado soil, provisionally assigned to the genus Nocardia, was shown to have chemical and morphological properties typical of nocardiae. The strain formed a distinct monophyletic clade in the 16S rDNA tree together with Nocardia africana, Nocardia vaccinii and Nocardia veterana, and showed a unique combination of phenotypic properties that distinguished it from representatives of all recognized...
Topics
- Brazil
- DNA, Bacterial
- DNA, Ribosomal
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Nocardia
- Phenotype
- Phylogeny
- RNA, Bacterial
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
- Soil Microbiology
- Species Specificity