Evaluation of Some Coefficients for Use in Numerical Taxonomy of Microorganisms
- 1 July 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Microbiology Society in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
- Vol. 27 (3), 204-210
- https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-27-3-204
Abstract
Taxonomic data, obtained for 141 Enterobacteriaceae strains for which 240 unit characters were recorded, were subjected to numerical tasonomy analysis employing 36 coefficients. Clustering was by unweighted average linkage. From sorted similarity matrices, it was found that 15 coefficients, which included SSM, SH, STD, SJ, SNM, SO, SRT, SSHD, Sin-1(SSM), SP, S.vphi., SUN1, SUN4, SD and SK2, provided useful discriminating properties. The coefficients SH and STD provided results indistinguishable from SSM, and the coefficients SO and S.vphi. yielded results very similar to those obtained with SSM coefficient.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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