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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...
Stepping stones towards a new prokaryotic taxonomyDirk Gevers
Laboratory of Microbiology and BCCM LMG Bacteria Collection, Ghent University, K L Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000 Gent, Belgium
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 361:1911-6. 2006..The present paper discusses the present practice in prokaryotic taxonomy of how this system developed and how it may evolve in the future...- In vitro conjugal transfer of tetracycline resistance from Lactobacillus isolates to other Gram-positive bacteriaDirk Gevers
Laboratory of Microbiology, Faculty of Sciences, Ghent University, B 9000 Ghent, Belgium
FEMS Microbiol Lett 225:125-30. 2003..In order to assess the risk of this potential hazard, the magnitude of transfer along the food chain merits further research... - Nitric oxide reductase (norB) gene sequence analysis reveals discrepancies with nitrite reductase (nir) gene phylogeny in cultivated denitrifiersKim Heylen
Laboratory of Microbiology, Department of Biochemistry, Physiology and Microbiology, Ghent University, K L Ledeganckstraat 35, B 9000 Gent, Belgium
Environ Microbiol 9:1072-7. 2007..Comparison of nir and norB phylogeny revealed that genetic linkage of both genes is not widespread among denitrifiers. Thus, independent evolution of the genes for both nitrogen oxide reductases does also occur... - Towards a prokaryotic genomic taxonomyTom Coenye
Laboratory of Microbiology, Ghent University, Ledeganckstraat 35, B 9000 Ghent, Belgium
FEMS Microbiol Rev 29:147-67. 2005.... - Prevalence and diversity of tetracycline resistant lactic acid bacteria and their tet genes along the process line of fermented dry sausagesDirk Gevers
Laboratory of Microbiology, Faculty of Sciences, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
Syst Appl Microbiol 26:277-83. 2003.... - Identification of Bifidobacterium species using rep-PCR fingerprintingLiesbeth Masco
Laboratory of Microbiology, Department of Biochemistry, Physiology and Microbiology, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
Syst Appl Microbiol 26:557-63. 2003..In conclusion, rep-PCR fingerprinting using the BOXA1R primer can be considered as a promising genotypic tool for the identification of a wide range of bifidobacteria at the species, subspecies and potentially up to the strain level... - 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... 
Taxon K, a complex within the Burkholderia cepacia complex, comprises at least two novel species, Burkholderia contaminans sp. nov. and Burkholderia lata sp. novElke Vanlaere
Laboratorium voor Microbiologie, Universiteit Gent, K L Ledeganckstraat 35, B 9000 Gent, Belgium
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 59:102-11. 2009....- The incidence of nirS and nirK and their genetic heterogeneity in cultivated denitrifiersKim Heylen
Laboratory of Microbiology, Department of Biochemistry, Physiology and Microbiology, Ghent University, K L Ledeganckstraat 35, B 9000 Gent, Belgium
Environ Microbiol 8:2012-21. 2006.... - Molecular characterization of tet(M) genes in Lactobacillus isolates from different types of fermented dry sausageDirk Gevers
Laboratory of Microbiology, Faculty of Sciences, Ghent University, B 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Appl Environ Microbiol 69:1270-5. 2003..To our knowledge, this is the first detailed molecular study demonstrating that taxonomically and genotypically diverse Lactobacillus strains from different types of fermented meat products can be a host for plasmid-borne tet genes... - Genomic and phenotypic comparison of Bacillus fumarioli isolates from geothermal Antarctic soil and gelatineElke De Clerck
Laboratory of Microbiology, Department of Biochemistry, Physiology and Microbiology, Ghent University, K L Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Res Microbiol 155:483-90. 2004..Furthermore, subtractive hybridisation revealed genomic differences between Antarctic and gelatine isolates that may indicate adaptive evolution to a specific environment... - Gene duplication and biased functional retention of paralogs in bacterial genomesDirk Gevers
Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Genomics, Ghent University/Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB, Technologiepark 927, B-9052 Ghent, Belgium
Trends Microbiol 12:148-54. 2004 - Biphasic kinetics of growth and bacteriocin production with Lactobacillus amylovorus DCE 471 occur under stress conditionsPatricia Neysens
Research Group of Industrial Microbiology, Fermentation Technology and Downstream Processing (IMDO, Department of Applied Biological Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
Microbiology 149:1073-82. 2003..Single, rod-shaped cells changed into elongated cells that grew in chains. Colony and cell morphology changes coincided with the biphasic growth pattern... - Diversity analysis of dairy and nondairy Lactococcus lactis isolates, using a novel multilocus sequence analysis scheme and (GTG)5-PCR fingerprintingJan L W Rademaker
NIZO Food Research, P O Box 20, 6710 BA Ede, The Netherlands
Appl Environ Microbiol 73:7128-37. 2007..The pheS DNA sequence analysis yielded two genetic groups dissimilar to the other genotyping analysis-based lineages, indicating a disparate acquisition route for this gene... - Horizontal transfer of tet(M) and erm(B) resistance plasmids from food strains of Lactobacillus plantarum to Enterococcus faecalis JH2-2 in the gastrointestinal tract of gnotobiotic ratsLouise Jacobsen
Department of Microbiology and Risk Assessment, Danish Institute for Food and Veterinary Research, Søborg, Denmark
FEMS Microbiol Ecol 59:158-66. 2007..10(3) CFU g(-1) faeces. To our knowledge, this is the first study showing in vivo transfer of wild-type antibiotic resistance plasmids from L. plantarum to E. faecalis... - Identification of lactobacilli by pheS and rpoA gene sequence analysesSabri M Naser
Department of Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Sciences, An Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 57:2777-89. 2007..In conclusion, the pheS and rpoA gene sequences can be used as alternative genomic markers to 16S rRNA gene sequences and have a higher discriminatory power for reliable identification of species of the genus Lactobacillus... - The genome of the versatile nitrogen fixer Azorhizobium caulinodans ORS571Kyung Bum Lee
Laboratory of Plant Biotechnology, Biotechnology Research Center, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113 8657, Japan
BMC Genomics 9:271. 2008..The host is a fast-growing, submergence-tolerant tropical legume on which A. caulinodans can efficiently induce nodule formation on the root system and on adventitious rootlets located on the stem... - Conservation of the chitin utilization pathway in the VibrionaceaeDana E Hunt
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 48 417, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 74:44-51. 2008..Overall, chitin metabolism appears to be a core function of Vibrionaceae, but individual pathway components exhibit dynamic evolutionary histories... - Resource partitioning and sympatric differentiation among closely related bacterioplanktonDana E Hunt
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Science 320:1081-5. 2008..Thus, environmental specialization may be an important correlate or even trigger of speciation among sympatric microbes...