Challenging the anthropocentric emphasis on phenotypic testing in prokaryotic species descriptions: Rip it up and start again

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue JUN, 2015, Pages

  Sutcliffe, Iain C ^a  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Genomics; Phylogeny; Species; Systematics; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

BIOINFORMATICS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL GENOME; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; NOTE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84940100607     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2015.00218     Document Type: Note

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