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| Fabiano L ThompsonSummaryAffiliation: Ghent University Country: Belgium Publications
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Vibrio fortis sp. nov. and Vibrio hepatarius sp. nov., isolated from aquatic animals and the marine environmentF L Thompson
Laboratory for Microbiology, Ghent University, K L Ledeganckstraat 35, Ghent 9000, Belgium
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 53:1495-501. 2003....
Biodiversity of vibriosFabiano 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...
Use of recA as an alternative phylogenetic marker in the family VibrionaceaeC 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 %...
Reclassification of Vibrio hollisae as Grimontia hollisae gen. nov., comb. novFabiano 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...
Vibrio trachuri Iwamoto et al. 1995 is a junior synonym of Vibrio harveyi (Johnson and Shunk 1936) Baumann et al. 1981Fabiano 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...
Application of multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) for rapid identification of Enterococcus species based on rpoA and pheS genesSabri 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...
Opinion: Re-evaluating prokaryotic speciesDirk 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...
Application of sliding-window discretization and minimization of stochastic complexity for the analysis of fAFLP genotyping fingerprint patterns of VibrionaceaePeter 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...
Genomic diversity of clinical and environmental Vibrio cholerae strains isolated in Brazil between 1991 and 2001 as revealed by fluorescent amplified fragment length polymorphism analysisFabiano 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...
Molecular identification of Vibrio harveyi-related isolates associated with diseased aquatic organismsBruno 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...
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/)...
Ecological diversification in the Bacillus cereus GroupMarie 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...
Phylogenetic analysis of vibrios and related species by means of atpA gene sequencesCristiane 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...
Photobacterium kishitanii sp. nov., a luminous marine bacterium symbiotic with deep-sea fishesJennifer 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...
Inferring the evolutionary history of vibrios by means of multilocus sequence analysisTomoo 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)...
Multilocus sequence analysis reveals that Vibrio harveyi and V. campbellii are distinct speciesFabiano 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...
Sneathiella chinensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel marine alphaproteobacterium isolated from coastal sediment in Qingdao, ChinaElizabeth 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))...
Vibrio2005: the First International Conference on the Biology of VibriosFabiano 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
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 abaloneTomoo 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...
Vibrio superstes sp. nov., isolated from the gut of Australian abalones Haliotis laevigata and Haliotis rubraKarin 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)...
Sliding window discretization: a new method for multiple band matching of bacterial genotyping fingerprintsBrian Austin
School of Life Sciences, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK
Bull Math Biol 66:1575-96. 2004....
Vibrio neonatus sp. nov. and Vibrio ezurae sp. nov. isolated from the gut of Japanese abalonesTomoo 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...
Vibrio gallicus sp. nov., isolated from the gut of the French abalone Haliotis tuberculataTomoo 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...
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...
