A call to action for the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 51-52

  Sutcliffe, Iain C ^a   Trujillo, Martha E ^b   Whitman, William B ^c   Goodfellow, Michael ^d  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM; GENOTYPE; LETTER; NOMENCLATURE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PUBLICATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84873208165     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: 18784380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2012.11.004     Document Type: Letter

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