The microorganisms that inhabit the human gastrointestinal tract comprise a complex
ecosystem with functions that significantly contribute to our systemic metabolism and have …

The phylum Actinobacteria harbors many important human pathogens and also provides
one of the richest sources of natural products, including numerous antibiotics and other …

Starting with the Second Edition of Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, the
arrangement of content follows a phylogenetic framework or “road map” based largely on …

This revised road map and the resulting taxonomic outline update the previous versions of
Garrity and Holt (2001) and Garrity et al.(2005) with the description of additional taxa and …

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Background Alpha proteobacteria are one of the largest and most extensively studied
groups within bacteria. However, for these bacteria as a whole and for all of its major …

Soil DNA extraction has become a critical step in describing microbial biodiversity.
Historically, ascertaining overarching microbial ecological theories has been hindered as …

Palaeontologically, eubacteria are> 3× older than neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria).
Cell biology contrasts ancestral eubacterial murein peptidoglycan walls and derived …

This study assessed the taxonomic hierarchy of the phylum Firmicutes as well as elucidated
the isolation and classification states of novel Firmicutes species isolated from Korean …

Taxonomy is often criticized for being too conservative and too slow and having limited
relevance because it has not taken into consideration the latest methods and findings. Yet …