Deinococcus mumbaiensis Shashidhar and Bandekar 2006 is a later heterotypic synonym of Deinococcus ficus Lai et al. 2006

Reclassification of Deinococcus xibeiensis as a Heterotypic Synonym of Deinococcus wulumuqiensis | Charles River

Lactobacillus arizonensis is a later heterotypic synonym of Lactobacillus plantarum.

The 'Lactobacillus plantarum group' encompasses the taxa Lactobacillus plantarum subsp. plantarum, Lactobacillus plantarum subsp. argentoratensis, Lactobacillus paraplantarum, Lactobacillus pentosus and Lactobacillus arizonensis. In this study, the phylogenetic position of L. arizonensis was examined using 16S rRNA gene-specific methodologies (16S rRNA sequencing and ribotyping) and genomic DNA...

Deinococcus ficus sp. nov., isolated from the rhizosphere of Ficus religiosa L.

A pale-pink strain (CC-FR2-10T) from the rhizosphere of the sacred tree Ficus religiosa L. in Taiwan was investigated by using a polyphasic taxonomic approach. The cells were Gram-positive, rod-shaped and non-spore-forming. Phylogenetic analyses using the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the isolate indicated that the organism belongs to the genus Deinococcus, the highest sequence similarities being f...

Deinococcus radiodurans PriA is a Pseudohelicase

Reactivation of repaired DNA replication forks in bacteria is catalyzed by PriA helicase. This broadly-conserved bacterial enzyme can remodel the structure of DNA at a repaired DNA replication fork by unwinding small portions of duplex DNA to prepare the fork for replisome reloading. While PriA's helicase activity is not strictly required for cell viability in E. coli, the sequence motifs that ...

Improving the recombination estimation method of Padhukasahasram et al 2006

The accuracy of the recombination estimation method of Padhukasahasram et al. 2006 can be improved by including additional informative summary statistics in the rejection scheme and by simulating datasets under a fixed segregating sites model. A C++ program that outputs these summary statistics is freely available from my website. We recently proposed a method for jointly estimating the populat...