Article
The family Pasteurellaceae: modern approaches to taxonomy.
Canadian journal of veterinary research = Revue canadienne de recherche veterinaire - 1 Apr 1990
MacInnes J I, Borr J D
Abstract excerpt
Historically, members of the family Pasteurellaceae were classified on the basis of a limited number of phenotypic characteristics. In particular, organisms were assigned to the family on the basis of their requirements for the growth factors hemin and/or nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide and on the basis of their ability to cause disease in vertebrates. More recent genotypic studies have shown that many members...
Topics
- Animals
- Bacterial Proteins
- DNA, Bacterial
- Genotype
- Humans
- Nucleic Acid Hybridization
- Pasteurellaceae
- Phenotype
- RNA, Bacterial
- RNA, Ribosomal
- Restriction Mapping
