Uncultivated microbes in need of their own taxonomy

Introducing a Digital Protologue: A timely move towards a database-driven systematics of Archaea and Bacteria

(2017) Ramon Rosselló-Móra et al.   SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Scaling laws predict global microbial diversity

(2016) Kenneth J. Locey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Status of the Archaeal and Bacterial Census: an Update

(2016) Patrick D. Schloss et al.   mBio

After All, Only Millions?

(2016) Rudolf Amann et al.   mBio

CheckM: assessing the quality of microbial genomes recovered from isolates, single cells, and metagenomes

(2015) Donovan H. Parks et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Massively parallel sequencing of single cells by epicPCR links functional genes with phylogenetic markers

(2015) Sarah J Spencer et al.   ISME Journal

Classifying the uncultivated microbial majority: A place for metagenomic data in the Candidatus proposal

(2015) Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis 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

A polyphasic approach leading to the revision of the genus Planktothrix (Cyanobacteria) and its type species, P. agardhii, and proposal for integrating the emended valid botanical taxa, as well as three new species, Planktothrix paucivesiculata sp. nov.ICNP, Planktothrix tepida sp. nov.ICNP, and Planktothrix serta sp. nov.ICNP, as genus and species names with nomenclatural standing under the ICNP

(2015) Virginie Gaget 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

Diverse uncultivated ultra-small bacterial cells in groundwater

(2015) Birgit Luef et al.   Nature Communications

Challenging the anthropocentric emphasis on phenotypic testing in prokaryotic species descriptions: rip it up and start again

(2015) Iain C. Sutcliffe   Frontiers in Genetics

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

(2014) Pablo Yarza et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

SUP05 Dominates the Gammaproteobacterial Sulfur Oxidizer Assemblages in Pelagic Redoxclines of the Central Baltic and Black Seas

(2013) Sabine Glaubitz et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Genome sequences of rare, uncultured bacteria obtained by differential coverage binning of multiple metagenomes

(2013) Mads Albertsen et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

LPSN—list of prokaryotic names with standing in nomenclature

(2013) Aidan C. Parte   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Bacterial species may exist, metagenomics reveal

(2011) Alejandro Caro-Quintero et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Towards a taxonomy of Bacteria and Archaea based on interactive and cumulative data repositories

(2011) Ramon Rosselló-Móra   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Phosphorus-related gene content is similar in Prochlorococcus populations from the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans

(2011) C. Luo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A single-cell sequencing approach to the classification of large, vacuolated sulfur bacteria

(2011) Verena Salman et al.   SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Ecosystem-specific selection pressures revealed through comparative population genomics

(2010) M. L. Coleman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Genomic sequencing of single microbial cells from environmental samples

(2008) Thomas Ishoey et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Detoxification of sulphidic African shelf waters by blooming chemolithotrophs

(2008) Gaute Lavik et al.   NATURE

The minimum information about a genome sequence (MIGS) specification

(2008) Dawn Field et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY