Rupert De Wachter

TL;DR: This paper reports the identification of bacterial endosymbionts inhabiting the leaf galls of Psychotria kirkii and proposes a provisional name for this as yet uncultivable bacterial endophytes in the genus Burkholderia.

TL;DR: An evolutionary tree, reconstructed from 1232 bacterial small ribosomal subunit RNA sequences by a distance method, reflects the existence of 11 divisions and a number of subdivisions, but the order of divergence that gave rise to these taxa remains indeterminate.

TL;DR: Complete small ribosomal subunit RNA sequences were used to infer the relationship between several basidiomycetous yeasts, and to resolve the evolutionary position of the basidiologycetes among the fungi.

TL;DR: The small ribosomal subunit RNA (srRNA) sequences of the type strains of three human pathogenic Candida species; Candida krusei, C. lusitaniae and C. albicans were determined and showed that the yeasts diverge rather late in the course of eukaryote evolution, namely at the same depth as green plants, ciliates and some smaller taxa.

TL;DR: A simple Campylobacter concisus-specific PCR assay was developed, based on a target sequence which comprises the most variable areas of 23S rDNA, which was successfully evaluated on a broad selection of C. Concisus strains and phylogenetically related bacteria.