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Entrez PubMed Nucleotide Protein Genome Structure PMC Taxonomy BioCollections
   
   Entrez records   
Database name Direct links Subtree links Links from type
BioProject 49 62 -
BioSample 200 227 -
Conserved Domains 1 1 -
GEO DataSets 18 18 -
Gene 10,685 61,271 -
Identical Protein Groups 31,512 35,791 -
Nucleotide 24,296 29,224 36
PubChem BioAssay 5 5 -
PMC 1,489 1,489 -
Protein 368,082 427,516 -
SRA 200 336 -
Structure 1 6 -
Taxonomy 20 20 -

Burkholderia mallei

Taxonomy ID: 13373 (for references in articles please use ncbitaxon:13373)
current name
Burkholderia mallei  (Zopf 1885) Yabuuchi et al. 1993
type strain of Burkholderia mallei: ATCC : 23344 , NCTC : 12938
homotypic synonym:
"Bacillus mallei"  Zopf 1885 , effective name  1)
"Malleomyces mallei"  (Zopf 1885) Pribram 1933 , effective name  2)
"Acinetobacter mallei"  (Zopf 1885) Steel and Cowan 1964 , effective name  3)
"Pfeifferella mallei"  (Zopf 1885) Buchanan 1918 , effective name  4)
"Loefferella mallei"  (Zopf 1885) Holden 1935 , effective name  5)
"Actinobacillus mallei"  (Zopf 1885) Thompson 1933 , effective name  6)
Pseudomonas mallei  (Zopf 1885) Redfearn et al. 1966 (Approved Lists 1980)
NCBI BLAST name: b-proteobacteria
Rank: species
Genetic code: Translation table 11 (Bacterial, Archaeal and Plant Plastid)
Lineage(full)
cellular organisms; Bacteria; Pseudomonadati; Pseudomonadota; Betaproteobacteria; Burkholderiales; Burkholderiaceae; Burkholderia; pseudomallei group

Notes:

Comments and References:

Buchanan RE (1918)
Buchanan, R.E. "Studies in the nomenclature and classification of the bacteria. V. subgroups and genera of the Bacteriaceae." J. Bacteriol. (1918) 3:27-61. [No abstract available.]
Godoy D et al. (2003)
Godoy, D., Randle, G., Simpson, A.J., Aanensen, D.M., Pitt, T.L., Kinoshita, R., and Spratt, B.G. "Multilocus sequence typing and evolutionary relationships among the causative agents of melioidosis and glanders, Burkholderia pseudomallei and Burkholderia mallei." J. Clin. Microbiol. (2003) 41:2068-2079. [Erratum: J. Clin. Microbiol. (2003) 41:4913.] (Note: Godoy et al. suggest that Burkholderia mallei and Burkholderia pseudomallei are conspecific.)
Pribram E (1933)
Pribram, E.: Klassification der Schizomyceten. F. Deuticke, Leipzig, (1933) pp. 1-143. [No PubMed record available.]
Steel KJ & Cowan ST (1964)
Steel, K.J.,and Cowan, S.T. "Le rattachement de Bacterium antratum, Moraxella lwoffii, Bacillus mallei et Haemophilus parapertussis au genre Acinetobacter Brisou et Prevot." Ann. Inst. Pasteur (Paris) (1964) 106:479-483. [No PubMed record available.]
VALIDATION LIST No. 45 (1993)
VALIDATION LIST No. 45. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1993) 43:398-399.
Yabuuchi E et al. (1992)
Yabuuchi, E., Kosako, Y., Oyaizu, H., Yano, I., Hotta, H., Hashimoto, Y., Ezaki, T., and Arakawa, M. "Proposal of Burkholderia gen. nov. and transfer of seven species of the genus Pseudomonas homology group II to the new genus, with the type species Burkholderia cepacia (Palleroni and Holmes 1981) comb. nov." Microbiol. Immunol. (1992) 36:1251-1275. [Erratum: Microbiol. Immunol. (1993) 37:335.]
Zopf W (1885)
Zopf, W. Die Spaltpilze, 3rd Ed., (1885). Edward Trewendt, Breslau, pp. 1-127. [No PubMed record available.]

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Reference: How to cite this resource - Schoch CL, et al. NCBI Taxonomy: a comprehensive update on curation, resources and tools. Database (Oxford). 2020: baaa062. PubMed: 32761142 PMC: PMC7408187.


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