On the fitness of microbial taxonomy

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 514-516

  Tamames, Javier ^a   Rosselló Móra, Ramon ^b  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Culture collection; Microbial taxonomy; Species description

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARCHAEON; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOLOGY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; FUNDING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; TAXONOMY;

BIBLIOMETRICS; CLASSIFICATION; HUMANS; MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84867897736     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: 18784380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2012.08.012     Document Type: Note

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