Uncultivated microbes in need of their own taxonomy

ISME Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2017, Pages 2399-2406

  Konstantinidis, Konstantinos T ^a   Rosselló Móra, Ramon ^b   Amann, Rudolf ^c  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BIOINFORMATICS; DNA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; MICROORGANISM; NOMENCLATURE; TAXONOMY;

ARCHAEON; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHYLOGENY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 85031803725     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2017.113     Document Type: Review

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