The phylogenetic relationship of purple sulfur bacteria (PSB), of the order Chromatiales (class Gammaproteobacteria), was analyzed based on photosynthetic gene sequences of the pufL and pufM genes, and the results compared to phylogenetic trees and groupings of the 16S rRNA gene. Primers for pufL and pufM genes were constructed and successfully used to amplify the pufLM genes of members of 16 g...

The conventional taxonomy on sea cucumbers is challenging due to their morphological complexity. Molecular investigation of the class Holothuroidea was initiated for further clarity regarding systematics and this class. A molecular phylogeny constructed by using maximum likelihood methods, unveiled variation in existing taxonomic classification, which largely based morphology calcareous parts. ...

Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is globally cultivated due to its high nutritional value. As with other legumes, success depends greatly on inoculation effective symbiotic rhizobial strains. Since agricultural importance as an alternative winter crop in Argentina very recent, there are limited phylogenetic studies the affiliation and origin of two strains used for here. We attempted define their ...

A phylogenetic analysis by parsimony of 16S rRNA gene sequences (16S rDNA) revealed that species and subspecies of Clavibacter and Rathayibacter form a discrete monophyletic clade, paraphyletic to Corynebacterium species. Within the Clavibacter-Rathayibacter clade, four major phylogenetic groups (subclades) with a total of 10 distinct taxa were recognized: (I) species C. michiganensis; (II) spe...

Nucleotide sequences from a 434-bp region of the 16S rRNA gene were analyzed for 65 taxa of Hymenoptera (ants, bees, wasps, parasitoid wasps, sawflies) to examine the patterns of variation within the gene fragment and the taxonomic levels for which it shows maximum utility in phylogeny estimation. A hierarchical approach was adopted in the study through comparison of levels of sequence variatio...

Cable bacteria are long, multicellular filaments that can conduct electric currents over centimeter-scale distances. All cable bacteria identified to date belong to the deltaproteobacterial family Desulfobulbaceae and have not been isolated in pure culture yet. Their taxonomic delineation and exact phylogeny is uncertain, as most studies so far have reported only short partial 16S rRNA sequence...

coastal region of chah bahar port, sea of oman, was screened for the presence of bioluminescence bacteria for the first time. water samples were taken from surface and subsurface layers and immediately spread on nutrient seawater complete (swc) agar. luminous colonies were observed after an overnight incubation at 25°c. among twenty luminous isolates, four of them were selected for preliminary ...

in this research the effects of crude oil on morphological and physiological characterization ofthe cyanobacterium microchaete tenera isc13 were investigated. isolated cyanobacterium treated with different oil concentrations (control, 1, 2.5, 5 and 7%) in carbonless bg110 medium. morphological characteristics such as morphology of filament, cellular shapes and sizes, relative position of hetero...