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William G. Weisburg
Researcher at Amoco
Publications - 49
Citations - 15020
William G. Weisburg is an academic researcher from Amoco. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ribosomal RNA & Mycoplasma. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 49 publications receiving 14037 citations. Previous affiliations of William G. Weisburg include University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
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16S ribosomal DNA amplification for phylogenetic study.
TL;DR: A set of oligonucleotide primers capable of initiating enzymatic amplification (polymerase chain reaction) on a phylogenetically and taxonomically wide range of bacteria is described in this paper.
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A phylogenetic analysis of the mycoplasmas: basis for their classification.
William G. Weisburg,J G Tully,D L Rose,J P Petzel,H Oyaizu,D Yang,Linda Mandelco,J E Sechrest,T G Lawrence,J Van Etten +9 more
TL;DR: Small-subunit rRNA sequences were determined for almost 50 species of mycoplasmas and their walled relatives, providing the basis for a phylogenetic systematic analysis of these organisms.
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The phylogeny of purple bacteria: the alpha subdivision.
Carl R. Woese,Erko Stackebrandt,William G. Weisburg,Bruce J. Paster,Michael T. Madigan,Valerie J. Fowler,Christine M. Hahn,Paul Blanz,Ramesh Gupta,Kenneth H. Nealson,George E. Fox +10 more
TL;DR: The phylogenetic substructure of the alpha subdivision is presented and the evolutionary significance of the admixture of biochemical phenotypes is discussed.
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Xylella fastidiosa gen. nov., sp. nov.: Gram-negative, xylem-limited, fastidious plant bacteria related to Xanthomonas spp.
John M. Wells,B. C. Raju,Hsueh-Yun Hung,William G. Weisburg,Linda Mandelco-Paul,Don J. Brenner +5 more
TL;DR: Twenty-five phenotypically and genotypically similar strains of a fastidious, xylem-limited bacterium were isolated from 10 plant disease sources, and the name Xylella fastidiosa is proposed, establishing a new genus with one species in the gamma subgroup of the eubacteria.
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Phylogenetic diversity of the Rickettsiae.
William G. Weisburg,M E Dobson,James E. Samuel,Gregory A. Dasch,L P Mallavia,O. Baca,Linda Mandelco,J E Sechrest,Emilio Weiss,Carl R. Woese +9 more
TL;DR: All members of the family Rickettsiaceae belong to the so-called purple bacterial phylum, and the three representatives of the genus Rickettsia form a tight monophyletic cluster within the alpha subdivision of the purple bacteria.