The changing landscape of microbial biodiversity exploration and its implications for systematics

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 231-236

  Hedlund, Brian P ^a   Dodsworth, Jeremy A ^b   Staley, James T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

"Microbial dark matter" metagenomics; Candidate phyla; Candidatus taxonomy; Single cell genomics

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEON; AXENIC CULTURE; BACTERIUM; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; LANDSCAPE; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TAXONOMIC RANK; TAXONOMY; TREE OF LIFE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; METAGENOMICS; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84999488403     PISSN: 07232020     EISSN: 16180984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2015.03.003     Document Type: Review

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