International committee on systematics of prokaryotes; subcommittee on the taxonomy of agrobacterium and rhizobium: minutes of the meetings, 31 August 2008, Gent, Belgium.

International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Agrobacterium and Rhizobium Minutes of the meeting, 7 September 2014, Tenerife, Spain.

The members present were J. P. W. Young, E. MartinezRomero, P. Vinuesa, B. Eardly and P. de Lajudie. K. Lindström was represented by S. A. Mousavi. All subcommittee members had the opportunity to participate in the online discussions. K. Lindström, secretary of the subcommittee since 1996, resigned from this responsibility, but expressed her willingness to continue to act as an active subcommit...

International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of phototrophic bacteria: minutes of the closed online meeting, 10-30 June 2014.

Emended descriptions of genera of the family Halobacteriaceae.

The family Halobacteriaceae currently contains 96 species whose names have been validly published, classified in 27 genera (as of September 2008). In recent years, many novel species have been added to the established genera but, in many cases, one or more properties of the novel species do not agree with the published descriptions of the genera. Authors have often failed to provide emended gen...

Prokaryotic taxonomy in the sequencing era and the role of MLSA in classification

10. Li, H.B. et al. (2008) Halomonas korlensis sp. nov., a moderately halophilic, denitrifying bacterium isolated from saline and alkaline soil. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 58, 2582–2588. 11. Sánchez-Porro, C. et al. (2009). Description of Kushneria aurantia gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member of the family Halomonadaceae, and a proposal for reclassification of Halomonas marisflavi as Kushne...

The Global Health Policies of the EU and its Member States: A Common Vision?

Background This article assesses the global health policies of the European Union (EU) and those of its individual member states. So far EU and public health scholars have paid little heed to this, despite the large budgets involved in this area. While the European Commission has attempted to define the ‘EU role in Global Health’ in 2010, member states are active in the domain of global health ...