Assessment of the genetic diversity of halotolerant coccoid cyanobacteria using amplified 16S rDNA restriction analysis

Citation
Mc. Margheri et al., Assessment of the genetic diversity of halotolerant coccoid cyanobacteria using amplified 16S rDNA restriction analysis, FEMS MICROB, 173(1), 1999, pp. 9-16
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology
Journal title
FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS
ISSN journal
03781097 → ACNP
Volume
173
Issue
1
Year of publication
1999
Pages
9 - 16
Database
ISI
SICI code
0378-1097(19990401)173:1<9:AOTGDO>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
Genetic diversity of 12 strains of coccoid cyanobacteria of different hyper saline origins has been studied by amplified 16S rDNA restriction analysis and compared with morphological characters. Cluster analysis was performed on amplified 16S rDNA restriction analysis profiles of those strains along with profiles obtained from sequence data of unicellular halotolerant cyano bacteria belonging to the recently described Halothece cluster. By using th is approach, all new strains could be assigned to the Halothece cluster, co nfirming that unicellular extremely halotolerant cyanobacteria form a monop hyletic group among cyanobacteria. New branches inside the Halothece cluste r were found and groups of very tightly related strains resulted. (C) 1999 Federation of European Microbiological Societies. Published by Elsevier Sci ence B.V. All rights reserved.