Modest proposals to expand the type material for naming of prokaryotes

Proposal to include the rank of phylum in the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes

(2015) Aharon Oren et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Unusual biology across a group comprising more than 15% of domain Bacteria

(2015) Christopher T. Brown et al.   NATURE

Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes

(2015) Anja Spang et al.   NATURE

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

(2015) Brian P. Hedlund et al.   SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) in prokaryotic taxonomy

(2015) Stefanie P. Glaeser et al.   SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Past and future species definitions for Bacteria and Archaea

(2015) Ramon Rosselló-Móra et al.   SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Genome sequences as the type material for taxonomic descriptions of prokaryotes

(2015) William B. Whitman   SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

The relationship of the whole genome sequence identity to DNA hybridization varies between genera of prokaryotes

(2014) Xun Li et al.   ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Integrating genomics into the taxonomy and systematics of the Bacteria and Archaea

(2014) J. Chun et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Uniting the classification of cultured and uncultured bacteria and archaea using 16S rRNA gene sequences

(2014) Pablo Yarza et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Genome sequence-based species delimitation with confidence intervals and improved distance functions

(2013) Jan P Meier-Kolthoff et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Insights into the phylogeny and coding potential of microbial dark matter

(2013) Christian Rinke et al.   NATURE

LPSN—list of prokaryotic names with standing in nomenclature

(2013) Aidan C. Parte   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Shifting the genomic gold standard for the prokaryotic species definition

(2009) Michael Richter et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA