Stepping stones towards a new prokaryotic taxonomy

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 361, Issue 1475, 2006, Pages 1911-1916

  Gevers, Dirk ^a,b   Dawyndt, Peter ^a   Vandamme, Peter ^a   Willems, Anne ^a   Vancanneyt, Marc ^a   Swings, Jean ^a   De Vos, Paul ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Landscaping prokaryotic systems; Prokaryotes; Species definition; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; EVOLUTION; GENOMICS; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROKARYOTE; TAXONOMY;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 33751243339     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1915     Document Type: Conference Paper

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