Microbial taxonomy in the post-genomic era: Rebuilding from scratch?

Cristiane C. Thompson; Gilda R. Amaral; Mariana Campeão; Robert A. Edwards; Martin F. Polz; Bas E. Dutilh; David W. Ussery; Tomoo Sawabe; Jean Swings; Fabiano L. Thompson

doi:10.1007/s00203-014-1071-2

Microbial taxonomy in the post-genomic era: Rebuilding from scratch?

Cristiane C. Thompson, Gilda R. Amaral, Mariana Campeão, Robert A. Edwards, Martin F. Polz, Bas E. Dutilh, David W. Ussery, Tomoo Sawabe, Jean Swings, Fabiano L. Thompson

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	359-370
Number of pages	12
Journal	ARCHIVES OF MICROBIOLOGY
Volume	197
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00203-014-1071-2
Publication status	Published - Apr 2015
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Archaea
Bacteria
Evolution
Genomics
Microbes
Open access
Taxonomy

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