Microbial systematics

Systematics of Microbial Kingdom (s) and Fungi

Metagenomics and beyond: new toolboxes for microbial systematics

An extraordinary DNA sequencing revolution has taken place over the past decade, which has seen exciting, yet challenging times for microbial genomics and systematics. Numerous metagenomics and metatranscriptomics projects have provided us with an unprecedented glimpse at the vast biological diversity that exists in minute amounts of samples obtained from environments such as ocean water, soil ...

Stackebrandt Calls Microbial Systematics Both His Hobby and His Work

M icrobial taxonomists are cautious about adopting novel approaches for classifying organisms. Not that I was ever against progress, but I often struck a wait-and-see attitude during more than 30 years of exposure to the latest scientific means for identifying, naming, and classifying microbial species and genera. This caution comes for two main reasons. First, taxonomists have been struggling ...

Evaluating the role of microbial sulfate reduction in the early Archean using quadruple isotope systematics

Article history: Microscopic pyrites with lo Received 25 August 2008 Received in revised form 2 January 2009 Accepted 6 January 2009 Available online 15 February 2009 Editor: R.W. Carlson

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

A vast diversity of Bacteria and Archaea exists in nature that has evaded axenic culture. Advancements in single-cell genomics, metagenomics, and molecular microbial ecology approaches provide ever-improving insight into the biology of this so-called "microbial dark matter"; however, due to the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes, yet-uncultivated microorganisms are not accommodat...