The Species Paradigm in Bacteriology: From a Crossdisciplinary Species Concept to a New Prokaryotic Species Definition (with Emphasis on Rhizobia)

Lindström, Kristina; Terefework, Zewdu; Auvinen, Petri; Paulin, Lars; Weidner, Stefan; Becker, Anke; Rüberg, Silvia; Gyllenberg, Helge

doi:10.1007/1-4020-3570-5_89

Kristina Lindström⁵,
Zewdu Terefework⁵,
Petri Auvinen⁶,
Lars Paulin⁶,
Stefan Weidner⁷,
Anke Becker⁷,
Silvia Rüberg⁷ &
…
Helge Gyllenberg⁵

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Department of Applied Chemistry and Microbiology, University of Helsinki, Finland
Kristina Lindström, Zewdu Terefework & Helge Gyllenberg
Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Finland
Petri Auvinen & Lars Paulin
Lehrstuhl für Genetik, Universität Bielefeld, 33594, Bielefeld, Germany
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Lindström, K. et al. (2005). The Species Paradigm in Bacteriology: From a Crossdisciplinary Species Concept to a New Prokaryotic Species Definition (with Emphasis on Rhizobia). In: Wang, YP., Lin, M., Tian, ZX., Elmerich, C., Newton, W.E. (eds) Biological Nitrogen Fixation, Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment. Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture, vol 41. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3570-5_89

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