Report of the ad hoc committee for the re-evaluation of the species definition in bacteriology

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1043-1047

  Stackebrandt, Erko ^a   Frederiksen, Wilhelm ^a   Garrity, George M ^a   Grimont, Patrick A D ^a   Kämpfer, Peter ^a   Maiden, Martin C J ^a   Nesme, Xavier ^a   Rosselló Mora, Ramon ^a   Swings, Jean ^a   Trüper, Hans G ^a   Vauterin, Luc ^a   Ward, Alan C ^a   Whitman, William B ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacterial systematics; Housekeeping genes; ICSP; Species definition

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; NEW SPECIES; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; STANDARD;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BACTERIOLOGY; DNA, BACTERIAL; SOCIETIES, SCIENTIFIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0035989633     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.02360-0     Document Type: Article

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