Reclassification of Bifidobacterium stercoris Kim et al. 2010 as a later heterotypic synonym of Bifidobacterium adolescentis
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Year of publication | 2013 |
Type | Article in Periodical |
Magazine / Source | International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology |
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Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.054957-0 |
Field | Microbiology, virology |
Keywords | Bifidobacterium; Reclassification; Taxonomy |
Description | The relationship between the two species was investigated by a taxonomic study (16S rRNA gene sequence, determination of DNA-DNA binding, multilocus sequence analysis of housekeeping genes). The results confirmed that B. stercoris and B. adolescentis are synonymous. |
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