Microbial communities play a significant role in maintaining ecosystems in a healthy
homeostasis. Presently, in the human gastrointestinal tract, there are certain taxonomic …

Parabacteroides distasonis is the type strain for the genus Parabacteroides, a group of gram-
negative anaerobic bacteria that commonly colonize the gastrointestinal tract of numerous …

Microbial systematics is heavily influenced by genome-based methods and challenged by
an ever increasing number of taxon names and associated sequences in public data …

After the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes (ICSP) had voted to include
the rank of phylum in the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes …

Microbial taxonomy is increasingly influenced by genome-based computational methods.
Yet such analyses can be complex and require expert knowledge. Here we introduce TYGS …

The class Alphaproteobacteria is comprised of a diverse assemblage of Gram-negative
bacteria that includes organisms of varying morphologies, physiologies and habitat …

Taxonomy is an organizing principle of biology and is ideally based on evolutionary
relationships among organisms. Development of a robust bacterial taxonomy has been …

Advancement of DNA sequencing technology allows the routine use of genome sequences
in the various fields of microbiology. The information held in genome sequences proved to …

The application of phylogenetic taxonomic procedures led to improvements in the
classification of bacteria assigned to the phylum Actinobacteria but even so there remains a …

Unlike proteins, glycan chains are not directly encoded by DNA, but by the specificity of the
enzymes that assemble them. Theoretical calculations have proposed an astronomical …