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Monique Gillis

Researcher at Ghent University

Publications -  145
Citations -  16265

Monique Gillis is an academic researcher from Ghent University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Bradyrhizobium & Sinorhizobium. The author has an hindex of 67, co-authored 145 publications receiving 15598 citations.

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Polyphasic taxonomy, a consensus approach to bacterial systematics.

TL;DR: In this review, the practice of polyphasic taxonomy is discussed for four groups of bacteria chosen for their relevance, complexity, or both: the genera Xanthomonas and Campylobacter, the lactic acid bacteria, and the family Comamonadaceae.
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Occurrence of multiple genomovars of Burkholderia cepacia in cystic fibrosis patients and proposal of Burkholderia multivorans sp. nov.

TL;DR: An integrated genotypic and phenotypic analysis of 128 strains of the genera Burkholderia, Ralstonia, and Pseudomonas shows that presumed B. cepacia strains isolated from cystic fibrosis patients belong to at least five distinct genomic species, one of which was identified as Burk holderia vietnamiensis.
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Methylotrophic Methylobacterium bacteria nodulate and fix nitrogen in symbiosis with legumes.

TL;DR: The discovery of a fourth rhizobial branch involving bacteria of the Methylobacterium genus is reported, which is closely related to Bradyrhizobium NodA, suggesting that this gene was acquired by horizontal gene transfer.
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Characterization of Azorhizobium caulinodans gen. nov., sp. nov., a stem-nodulating nitrogen-fixing bacterium isolated from Sesbania rostrata

TL;DR: The Sesbania stem- and root-nodulating bacterial strains are genuine rhizobia and constitute a separate rRNA subbranch on the Rhodopseudomonas palustris rRNA branch in rRNA superfamily IV.
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The Determination of Molecular Weight of Bacterial Genome DNA from Renaturation Rates

TL;DR: A new method is described for the determination of the total molecular weight of haploid genome DNA based on initial optical renaturation rate measurements of precisely known concentrations of fragmented DNA that appears to offer advantages by its simplicity, rapidity and reproducibility.