Fabiano L Thompson

Summary

Affiliation: Ghent University
Country: Belgium

Publications

  1. ncbi Vibrio fortis sp. nov. and Vibrio hepatarius sp. nov., isolated from aquatic animals and the marine environment
    F L Thompson
    Laboratory for Microbiology, Ghent University, K L Ledeganckstraat 35, Ghent 9000, Belgium
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 53:1495-501. 2003
  2. ncbi Biodiversity of vibrios
    Fabiano L Thompson
    Laboratory of Microbiology, Ghent University, K L Ledeganckstraat 35, Ghent 9000, Belgium
    Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 68:403-31, table of contents. 2004
  3. ncbi Use of recA as an alternative phylogenetic marker in the family Vibrionaceae
    C C Thompson
    Laboratory for Microbiology, Ghent University, K L Ledeganckstraat 35, Ghent 9000, Belgium
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 54:919-24. 2004
  4. ncbi Reclassification of Vibrio hollisae as Grimontia hollisae gen. nov., comb. nov
    Fabiano L Thompson
    Laboratory for Microbiology, Ghent University, K. L. Ledeganckstraat 35, Ghent 9000, Belgium
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 53:1615-7. 2003
  5. ncbi Vibrio trachuri Iwamoto et al. 1995 is a junior synonym of Vibrio harveyi (Johnson and Shunk 1936) Baumann et al. 1981
    Fabiano L Thompson
    Laboratory for Microbiology, Ghent University, Belgium
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 52:973-6. 2002
  6. ncbi Application of multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) for rapid identification of Enterococcus species based on rpoA and pheS genes
    Sabri M Naser
    Laboratory of Microbiology, Ghent University, K. L. Ledeganckstraat 35, Ghent 9000, Belgium
    Microbiology 151:2141-50. 2005
  7. ncbi Opinion: Re-evaluating prokaryotic species
    Dirk Gevers
    Laboratory of Microbiology and the Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Genomics Research Group, Ghent University VIB, Ghent, Belgium
    Nat Rev Microbiol 3:733-9. 2005
  8. ncbi Application of sliding-window discretization and minimization of stochastic complexity for the analysis of fAFLP genotyping fingerprint patterns of Vibrionaceae
    Peter Dawyndt
    Laboratorium voor Microbiologie, Universiteit Gent, B 9000 Gent, Belgium
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 55:57-66. 2005
  9. ncbi Genomic diversity of clinical and environmental Vibrio cholerae strains isolated in Brazil between 1991 and 2001 as revealed by fluorescent amplified fragment length polymorphism analysis
    Fabiano L Thompson
    Laboratory for Microbiology and BCCM LMG Bacteria Collection, Ghent University, Ghent 9000, Belgium
    J Clin Microbiol 41:1946-50. 2003
  10. ncbi Molecular identification of Vibrio harveyi-related isolates associated with diseased aquatic organisms
    Bruno Gomez-Gil
    CIAD Mazatlán Unit for Aquaculture, AP 711, Mazatlan Sinaloa, Mexico 82000
    Microbiology 150:1769-77. 2004

Detail Information

Publications24

  1. ncbi Vibrio fortis sp. nov. and Vibrio hepatarius sp. nov., isolated from aquatic animals and the marine environment
    F L Thompson
    Laboratory for Microbiology, Ghent University, K L Ledeganckstraat 35, Ghent 9000, Belgium
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 53:1495-501. 2003
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  2. ncbi Biodiversity of vibrios
    Fabiano L Thompson
    Laboratory of Microbiology, Ghent University, K L Ledeganckstraat 35, Ghent 9000, Belgium
    Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 68:403-31, table of contents. 2004
    ..g., microarrays will facilitate the investigation of the gene repertoire at the species level. Based on such new genomic information, the taxonomy and the species concept for vibrios will be reviewed in the next years...
  3. ncbi Use of recA as an alternative phylogenetic marker in the family Vibrionaceae
    C C Thompson
    Laboratory for Microbiology, Ghent University, K L Ledeganckstraat 35, Ghent 9000, Belgium
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 54:919-24. 2004
    ..recA gene sequences are much more discriminatory than 16S rDNA. For 16S rDNA similarity values above 98 % there was a wide range of recA similarities, from 83 to 99 %...
  4. ncbi Reclassification of Vibrio hollisae as Grimontia hollisae gen. nov., comb. nov
    Fabiano L Thompson
    Laboratory for Microbiology, Ghent University, K. L. Ledeganckstraat 35, Ghent 9000, Belgium
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 53:1615-7. 2003
    ..16S rDNA sequence similarity of V. hollisae and Vibrio cholerae was only 91 %. These results suggest that V. hollisae should be placed into a novel genus, for which the name Grimontia gen. nov. is proposed...
  5. ncbi Vibrio trachuri Iwamoto et al. 1995 is a junior synonym of Vibrio harveyi (Johnson and Shunk 1936) Baumann et al. 1981
    Fabiano L Thompson
    Laboratory for Microbiology, Ghent University, Belgium
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 52:973-6. 2002
    ..Phenotypical features of both species were also very similar, except that V. trachuri utilized itaconic acid, whereas V. harveyi did not. Therefore, it is proposed that the species V. trachuri should be reclassified as V. harveyi...
  6. ncbi Application of multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) for rapid identification of Enterococcus species based on rpoA and pheS genes
    Sabri M Naser
    Laboratory of Microbiology, Ghent University, K. L. Ledeganckstraat 35, Ghent 9000, Belgium
    Microbiology 151:2141-50. 2005
    ..The MLSA approach to Enterococcus taxonomy provides portable, highly reproducible data with lower costs for rapid identification of all enterococcal species...
  7. ncbi Opinion: Re-evaluating prokaryotic species
    Dirk Gevers
    Laboratory of Microbiology and the Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Genomics Research Group, Ghent University VIB, Ghent, Belgium
    Nat Rev Microbiol 3:733-9. 2005
    ..We also consider the potential, and difficulties, of assigning species status to biologically or ecologically meaningful sequence clusters...
  8. ncbi Application of sliding-window discretization and minimization of stochastic complexity for the analysis of fAFLP genotyping fingerprint patterns of Vibrionaceae
    Peter Dawyndt
    Laboratorium voor Microbiologie, Universiteit Gent, B 9000 Gent, Belgium
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 55:57-66. 2005
    ..As a result, the new classification methodology has highlighted some previously unseen relationships within the biodiversity of the family Vibrionaceae...
  9. ncbi Genomic diversity of clinical and environmental Vibrio cholerae strains isolated in Brazil between 1991 and 2001 as revealed by fluorescent amplified fragment length polymorphism analysis
    Fabiano L Thompson
    Laboratory for Microbiology and BCCM LMG Bacteria Collection, Ghent University, Ghent 9000, Belgium
    J Clin Microbiol 41:1946-50. 2003
    ..The persistence of some strains of highly related genomes during several years and in completely different geographical regions suggests that these strains are highly successful in adapting to changing environmental conditions...
  10. ncbi Molecular identification of Vibrio harveyi-related isolates associated with diseased aquatic organisms
    Bruno Gomez-Gil
    CIAD Mazatlán Unit for Aquaculture, AP 711, Mazatlan Sinaloa, Mexico 82000
    Microbiology 150:1769-77. 2004
    ..The results presented indicate that strains phenotypically identified as V. harveyi are in fact V. campbellii; these findings position V. campbellii as an important species involved in diseases of reared aquatic organisms...
  11. ncbi Identification of vibrio cholerae and vibrio mimicus by multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA)
    Cristiane C Thompson
    Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 58:617-21. 2008
    ..V. cholerae and V. mimicus isolates can be readily identified through the open database resource 'The Taxonomy of Vibrios' (http://www.taxvibrio.lncc.br/)...
  12. ncbi Ecological diversification in the Bacillus cereus Group
    Marie Helene Guinebretiere
    Institut National de Recherche Agronomique, UMR A408 Sécurité et Qualité des Produits d Origine Végétale, INRA, Domaine Saint Paul, Site Agroparc, F 84914 Avignon Cedex 9, France
    Environ Microbiol 10:851-65. 2008
    ..cereus Group. The implications for the taxonomy of this Group and for the human health risk are discussed...
  13. ncbi Phylogenetic analysis of vibrios and related species by means of atpA gene sequences
    Cristiane C Thompson
    Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 57:2480-4. 2007
    ..The intraspecies variation in the atpA gene sequence was about 99% sequence similarity. The results showed clearly that atpA gene sequences are a suitable alternative for the identification and phylogenetic study of vibrios...
  14. ncbi Photobacterium kishitanii sp. nov., a luminous marine bacterium symbiotic with deep-sea fishes
    Jennifer C Ast
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 57:2073-8. 2007
    ..nov. is proposed. The type strain, pjapo.1.1(T) (=ATCC BAA-1194(T)=LMG 23890(T)), is a luminous symbiont isolated from the light organ of the deep-water fish Physiculus japonicus...
  15. ncbi Inferring the evolutionary history of vibrios by means of multilocus sequence analysis
    Tomoo Sawabe
    Laboratory of Microbiology, Faculty of Fisheries, Hokkaido University, 3 1 1 Minato cho, Hakodate 041 8611, Japan
    J Bacteriol 189:7932-6. 2007
    ..4% amino acid identity based on the eight protein-coding housekeeping genes. The gene sequence data were used to refine the standard online electronic taxonomic scheme for vibrios (http://www.taxvibrio.lncc.br)...
  16. ncbi Multilocus sequence analysis reveals that Vibrio harveyi and V. campbellii are distinct species
    Fabiano L Thompson
    Department of Genetics, Institute of Biology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
    Appl Environ Microbiol 73:4279-85. 2007
    ..Strains of the same species will share at least 95% concatenated sequence similarity using the seven loci, and, most importantly, cospecific strains will form cohesive readily recognizable phylogenetic clades...
  17. ncbi Sneathiella chinensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel marine alphaproteobacterium isolated from coastal sediment in Qingdao, China
    Elizabeth Mary Jordan
    School of Life Sciences, Heriot Watt University, Riccarton, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 57:114-21. 2007
    ..Therefore, the polyphasic data support the placement of strain LMG 23452(T) within a novel genus and species, for which the name Sneathiella chinensis gen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is LMG 23452(T) (=CBMAI 737(T))...
  18. ncbi Vibrio2005: the First International Conference on the Biology of Vibrios
    Fabiano L Thompson
    Microbial Resources Division and Brazilian Collection of Environmental and Industrial Microrganisms (CBMAI, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil
    J Bacteriol 188:4592-6. 2006
  19. ncbi Fluorescent amplified fragment length polymorphism and repetitive extragenic palindrome-PCR fingerprinting reveal host-specific genetic diversity of Vibrio halioticoli-like strains isolated from the gut of Japanese abalone
    Tomoo Sawabe
    Laboratory of Microbiology, Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, Hakodate 041 8611, Japan
    Appl Environ Microbiol 68:4140-4. 2002
    ..The V. halioticoli isolates from turban shells were distributed evenly among the clusters. Representative isolates from two clusters were deemed separate species or subspecies by DNA-DNA hybridization...
  20. ncbi Vibrio superstes sp. nov., isolated from the gut of Australian abalones Haliotis laevigata and Haliotis rubra
    Karin Hayashi
    Laboratory of Microbiology, Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, 3-1-1 Minato-cho, Hakodate 041, Japan
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 53:1813-7. 2003
    ..superstes from other Vibrio species: V. superstes sp. nov. and V. halioticoli can be differentiated on the basis of 17 traits (indole production, beta-galactosidase test and assimilation of 15 carbon compounds)...
  21. ncbi Sliding window discretization: a new method for multiple band matching of bacterial genotyping fingerprints
    Brian Austin
    School of Life Sciences, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK
    Bull Math Biol 66:1575-96. 2004
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  22. ncbi Vibrio neonatus sp. nov. and Vibrio ezurae sp. nov. isolated from the gut of Japanese abalones
    Tomoo Sawabe
    Laboratory of Microbiology, Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, Hakodate, Japan
    Syst Appl Microbiol 27:527-34. 2004
    ..6-44.8) are proposed to encompass these new taxa. The two new species can be differentiated from V. halioticoli on the basis of several features, including beta-galactosidase activity, assimilation of glycerol, D-mannose and D-gluconate...
  23. ncbi Vibrio gallicus sp. nov., isolated from the gut of the French abalone Haliotis tuberculata
    Tomoo Sawabe
    Laboratory of Microbiology, Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, 3 1 1 Minato cho, Hakodate 041, Japan
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 54:843-6. 2004
    ..gallicus from other Vibrio species: V. gallicus can be differentiated from Vibrio halioticoli on the basis of four traits (beta-galactosidase test and assimilation of three carbon compounds) and from Vibrio superstes by 16 traits...
  24. ncbi Diversity of Vibrios associated with reared clams in Galicia (NW Spain)
    Roxana Beaz Hidalgo
    Departamento de Microbiologia y Parasitologia, Facultad de Biología e Instituto de Acuicultura, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
    Syst Appl Microbiol 31:215-22. 2008
    ..A wide diversity of vibrios was found in cultured clams from all four geographic locations analyzed. In total, more than 12 Vibrio species and at least three potential new species in this genus were identified...