Past and future species definitions for Bacteria and Archaea

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 209-216

  Rosselló Móra, Ramon ^a   Amann, Rudolf ^b  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Genomics; Species concept; Species definition

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARCHAEAL GENOME; ARCHAEON; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MONOPHYLY; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA GENE; TAXONOMY; TYPE STRAIN; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOMICS;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84999491381     PISSN: 07232020     EISSN: 16180984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2015.02.001     Document Type: Review

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