Deoxyribonucleic acid relationships among members of the genus Aeromonas

1979 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 579-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan I. MacInnes ◽  
Trevor J. Trust ◽  
Jorge H. Crosa

Polynucleotide sequences among 24 motile and 11 non-motile aeromonads were studied by analysis of deoxyribonucleic acid – deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA–DNA) duplexes with endonuclease S1. In addition, DNA base composition (mole % guanine and cytosine (G + C) and relative genome sizes were determined for selected strains. Large variations in genome size were found and % GC ranged from 57.1 to 62.9%. On the basis of the strains examined, the Genus Aeromonas consists of two genotypically legitimate groups: a diverse group of motile aeromonads, and the genetically more homogeneous non-motile aeromonads, comprising the species Aeromonas salmonicida. Internal homology groups could not be demonstrated within the motile aeromonads, and significant divergence in related sequences was indicated. This diverse motile group forms the single species Aeromonas hydrophila.

1969 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 490-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald H. Elkan

The DNA base composition (expressed as mean molar percentages of guanine and cytosine) of 25 strains of Rhizobium japonicum was determined to study the genetic relatedness of these strains. The mole percentage GC ranged from 61.47 to 64.09. Statistical analysis of the DNA base ratios of the 25 isolates revealed that 16 of these differed significantly in GC ratios from some of the other strains.


1966 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 1099-1103 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. R. Colwell ◽  
R. V. Citarella ◽  
P. K. Chen

A marine bacterium, NCMB 397, host strain for bacteriophages NCMB 384 and 385, has been subjected to taxonoinic analysis. Overall base composition of the highly purified deoxyribonucleic acid was determined and found to be 37 moles % guanine + cytosine. The phenetic and nucleic acid data suggest significant relationship of this strain and members of the genus Cytophaga. A description of Cytophaga marinoflava n. sp. is presented.


1971 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. F. Gause ◽  
A. V. Laiko ◽  
M. V. Bibikova ◽  
L. I. Kusovkova ◽  
T. I. Selesneva ◽  
...  

2003 ◽  
Vol 11 (04) ◽  
pp. 341-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. R. Forsdyke

Sometimes a cross between two individuals that appear to belong to the same species produces a sterile offspring (i.e., their hybrid is sterile). Thus, the two individuals appear reproductively isolated from each other. If each could find a compatible mate, then new species might emerge. At issue is whether the form of hybrid sterility that precedes sympatric differentiation into species is, in the general case, of genic or non-genic origin. Several recent papers lend the authority of William Bateson to the genic hypothesis, referring to the "Bateson–Dobzhansky–Muller hypothesis". All these papers cite a 1996 paper that, in turn, cites a 1909 paper of Bateson. However, from 1902 until 1926 the latter espoused a non-genic hypothesis that today would be classified as "chromosomal". Analysis of Bateson's 1909 text reveals no recantation. Bateson's non-genic view was similar to that advanced by Richard Goldschmidt in the 1940s. However, Bateson proposed a contribution from parents of abstract factors that, together in their hybrids, complement to bring about a negative effect (hybrid sterility). In contrast, Goldschmidt proposed that normally parents contribute complementary factors making parental chromosomes compatible at meiosis in their hybrids, which hence are fertile (i.e., the parental factors work together to produce a positive effect). When the factors are not sufficiently complementary the parental chromosomes are incompatible in their hybrids, which hence are sterile. The non-genic Batesonian–Goldschmidtian abstractions are now being fleshed-out chemically in terms of DNA base-composition differences.


1983 ◽  
Vol 18 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 131-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew David Collins ◽  
Sara Feresu ◽  
Dorothy Jones

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