TY - JOUR
T1 - Microbial taxonomy in the post-genomic era
T2 - Rebuilding from scratch?
AU - Thompson, Cristiane C.
AU - Amaral, Gilda R.
AU - Campeão, Mariana
AU - Edwards, Robert A.
AU - Polz, Martin F.
AU - Dutilh, Bas E.
AU - Ussery, David W.
AU - Sawabe, Tomoo
AU - Swings, Jean
AU - Thompson, Fabiano L.
PY - 2015/4
Y1 - 2015/4
N2 - Microbial taxonomy should provide adequate descriptions of bacterial, archaeal, and eukaryotic microbial diversity in ecological, clinical, and industrial environments. Its cornerstone, the prokaryote species has been re-evaluated twice. It is time to revisit polyphasic taxonomy, its principles, and its practice, including its underlying pragmatic species concept. Ultimately, we will be able to realize an old dream of our predecessor taxonomists and build a genomic-based microbial taxonomy, using standardized and automated curation of high-quality complete genome sequences as the new gold standard.
AB - Microbial taxonomy should provide adequate descriptions of bacterial, archaeal, and eukaryotic microbial diversity in ecological, clinical, and industrial environments. Its cornerstone, the prokaryote species has been re-evaluated twice. It is time to revisit polyphasic taxonomy, its principles, and its practice, including its underlying pragmatic species concept. Ultimately, we will be able to realize an old dream of our predecessor taxonomists and build a genomic-based microbial taxonomy, using standardized and automated curation of high-quality complete genome sequences as the new gold standard.
KW - Archaea
KW - Bacteria
KW - Evolution
KW - Genomics
KW - Microbes
KW - Open access
KW - Taxonomy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84925500566&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s00203-014-1071-2
DO - 10.1007/s00203-014-1071-2
M3 - Article
C2 - 25533848
AN - SCOPUS:84925500566
SN - 0302-8933
VL - 197
SP - 359
EP - 370
JO - ARCHIVES OF MICROBIOLOGY
JF - ARCHIVES OF MICROBIOLOGY
IS - 3
ER -