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Past and future species definitions for Bacteria and Archaea
Rosselló-Mora, Ramón
Amann, Rudolf
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España)
European Commission
Govern de les Illes Balears
Max Planck Society
Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina
Species concept
Species definition
Genomics
© 2015 Elsevier GmbH. Species is the basic unit of biological diversity. However, among the different microbiological disciplines there is an important degree of disagreement as to what this unit may be. In this minireview, we argue that the main point of disagreement is the definition (i.e. the way species are circumscribed by means of observable characters) rather than the concept (i.e. the idea of what a species may be as a unit of biodiversity, the meaning of the patterns of recurrence observed in nature, and the why of their existence). Taxonomists have defined species by means of genetic and expressed characters that ensure the members of the unit are monophyletic, and exhibit a large degree of genomic and phenotypic coherence. The new technologies allowing high-throughput data acquisition are expected to improve future classifications significantly and will lead to database-based taxonomy centered on portable and interactive data. Future species descriptions of Bacteria and Archaea should include a high quality genome sequence of at least the type strain as an obligatory requirement, just as today an almost full-length 16S rRNA gene sequence must be provided. Serious efforts are needed in order to re-evaluate the major guidelines for standard descriptions.
R.R.M. acknowledges the scientific support given by the Spanish Ministry of Economy through the project CGL2012-39627-C03-03, which was also financed with European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) funds, and the preparatory phase of the Microbial Resource Research Infrastructure (MIRRI) funded by the EU (grant number 312251). In addition, the funding from competitive research groups (Microbiology) of the Government of the Balearic Islands (also co-supported with FEDER funds), is also acknowledged. R.A. acknowledges funding by the Max Planck Society and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina for the working group “Taxonomy in the age of – OMICS”
Peer Reviewed
2015-10-23T08:54:55Z
2015-10-23T08:54:55Z
2015-06-01
2015-10-23T08:55:00Z
artículo
http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501
doi: 10.1016/j.syapm.2015.02.001
issn: 1618-0984
Systematic and Applied Microbiology 38(4): 209-216 (2015)
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/123753
10.1016/j.syapm.2015.02.001
http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003329
http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000780
http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004189
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info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/312251
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2015.02.001
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Elsevier