Ensifer canadensis sp. nov. strain T173T isolated from Melilotus albus (sweet clover) in Canada possesses recombinant plasmid pT173b harbouring symbiosis and type IV secretion system genes apparently acquired from Ensifer medicae

Taxonomy of Rhizobiaceae revisited: proposal of a new framework for genus delimitation

(2022) Nemanja Kuzmanović et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Notification that new names of prokaryotes, new combinations, and new taxonomic opinions have appeared in volume 72, part 3 of the IJSEM

(2022) Aharon Oren et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Editorial: Plasmid transfer-mechanisms, ecology, evolution and applications

(2022) Chin-Yi Chen et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Introducing the Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center (BV-BRC): a resource combining PATRIC, IRD and ViPR

(2022) Robert D Olson et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The Biology of Canadian Weeds. XX. Galega officinalis L.

(2021) Stephen Darbyshire et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCE

TYGS and LPSN: a database tandem for fast and reliable genome-based classification and nomenclature of prokaryotes

(2021) Jan P Meier-Kolthoff et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Why are rhizobial symbiosis genes mobile?

(2021) Grace E. Wardell et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Symbiotic and non-symbiotic members of the genus Ensifer (syn. Sinorhizobium) are separated into two clades based on comparative genomics and high-throughput phenotyping

(2020) Camilla Fagorzi et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Minimal standards for the description of new genera and species of rhizobia and agrobacteria

(2019) Philippe M. de Lajudie et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

TYGS is an automated high-throughput platform for state-of-the-art genome-based taxonomy

(2019) Jan P. Meier-Kolthoff et al.   Nature Communications

ModelTest-NG: A New and Scalable Tool for the Selection of DNA and Protein Evolutionary Models

(2019) Diego Darriba et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Effectiveness of nitrogen fixation in rhizobia

(2019) Kristina Lindström et al.   Microbial Biotechnology

Using average nucleotide identity to improve taxonomic assignments in prokaryotic genomes at the NCBI

(2018) Stacy Ciufo et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Proposed minimal standards for the use of genome data for the taxonomy of prokaryotes

(2018) Jongsik Chun et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Translocation through the Conjugative Type IV Secretion System Requires Unfolding of Its Protein Substrate

(2018) Martina Trokter et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

KBase: The United States Department of Energy Systems Biology Knowledgebase

(2018) Adam P Arkin et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Single molecule real-time (SMRT) sequencing comes of age: applications and utilities for medical diagnostics

(2018) Simon Ardui et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Multiple Ribosomal RNA Operons in Bacteria; Their Concerted Evolution and Potential Consequences on the Rate of Evolution of Their 16S rRNA

(2018) Romilio T. Espejo et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

High throughput ANI analysis of 90K prokaryotic genomes reveals clear species boundaries

(2018) Chirag Jain et al.   Nature Communications

OrthoANI: An improved algorithm and software for calculating average nucleotide identity

(2016) Imchang Lee et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Alfalfa microsymbionts from different ITS and nodC lineages of Ensifer meliloti and Ensifer medicae symbiovar meliloti establish efficient symbiosis with alfalfa in Spanish acid soils

(2015) Martha-Helena Ramírez-Bahena et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

FastME 2.0: A Comprehensive, Accurate, and Fast Distance-Based Phylogeny Inference Program: Table 1.

(2015) Vincent Lefort et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Bacterial clade with the ribosomal RNA operon on a small plasmid rather than the chromosome

(2015) Mizue Anda et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genome sequence of Ensifer adhaerens OV14 provides insights into its ability as a novel vector for the genetic transformation of plant genomes

(2014) Steven Rudder et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Bradyrhizobium ottawaense sp. nov., a symbiotic nitrogen fixing bacterium from root nodules of soybeans in Canada

(2014) X. Yu et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Genome sequence of Ensifer medicae strain WSM1115; an acid-tolerant Medicago-nodulating microsymbiont from Samothraki, Greece

(2014) Wayne Reeve et al.   Standards in Genomic Sciences

Genome sequence-based species delimitation with confidence intervals and improved distance functions

(2013) Jan P Meier-Kolthoff et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Ribosomal Database Project: data and tools for high throughput rRNA analysis

(2013) James R. Cole et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Genetic Characterization of a Novel Rhizobial Plasmid Conjugation System in Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. viciae Strain VF39SM

(2012) Hao Ding et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Ribosomal multilocus sequence typing: universal characterization of bacteria from domain to strain

(2012) K. A. Jolley et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

The ABCs of plasmid replication and segregation

(2012) Uelinton M. Pinto et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Genetic and functional characterization of a yet-unclassified rhizobial Dtr (DNA-transfer-and-replication) region from a ubiquitous plasmid conjugal system present in Sinorhizobium meliloti, in Sinorhizobium medicae, and in other nonrhizobial Gram-negative bacteria

(2012) María de los Ángeles Giusti et al.   PLASMID

Microevolution of symbioticBradyrhizobiumpopulations associated with soybeans in east North America

(2012) Jie Tang et al.   Ecology and Evolution

BIGSdb: Scalable analysis of bacterial genome variation at the population level

(2011) Keith A Jolley et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Phylogeny and character evolution in Medicago (Leguminosae): Evidence from analyses of plastid trnK/matK and nuclear GA3ox1 sequences

(2010) Kelly P. Steele et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Diversity of 16S rRNA Genes within Individual Prokaryotic Genomes

(2010) A. Y. Pei et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

pSymA-Dependent Mobilization of the Sinorhizobium meliloti pSymB Megaplasmid

(2010) H. Blanca-Ordonez et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

(2010) Stéphane Guindon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Introducing the bacterial ‘chromid’: not a chromosome, not a plasmid

(2010) Peter W. Harrison et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Plasmid transfer systems in the rhizobia

(2009) Hao Ding et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

Biological Diversity of Prokaryotic Type IV Secretion Systems

(2009) C. E. Alvarez-Martinez et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Ensifer, Phyllobacterium and Rhizobium species occupy nodules of Medicago sativa (alfalfa) and Melilotus alba (sweet clover) grown at a Canadian site without a history of cultivation

(2009) E. S. P. Bromfield et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Shifting the genomic gold standard for the prokaryotic species definition

(2009) Michael Richter et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

GenomeMatcher: A graphical user interface for DNA sequence comparison

(2008) Yoshiyuki Ohtsubo et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Advantages of multilocus sequence analysis for taxonomic studies: a case study using 10 housekeeping genes in the genus Ensifer (including former Sinorhizobium)

(2008) M. Martens et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY