Revision of the 'Candidatus Phytoplasma' species description guidelines

A Bertaccini, Y Arocha-Rosete… - … of Systematic and …, 2022 - microbiologyresearch.org
The genus 'Candidatus Phytoplasma'was proposed to accommodate cell wall-less bacteria
that are molecularly and biochemically incompletely characterized, and colonize plant …

An Update on the Genus Aeromonas: Taxonomy, Epidemiology, and Pathogenicity

A Fernández-Bravo, MJ Figueras - Microorganisms, 2020 - mdpi.com
The genus Aeromonas belongs to the Aeromonadaceae family and comprises a group of
Gram-negative bacteria widely distributed in aquatic environments, with some species able …

A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae …

J Zheng, S Wittouck, E Salvetti… - … of systematic and …, 2020 - microbiologyresearch.org
The genus Lactobacillus comprises 261 species (at March 2020) that are extremely diverse
at phenotypic, ecological and genotypic levels. This study evaluated the taxonomy of …

A highly conserved core bacterial microbiota with nitrogen-fixation capacity inhabits the xylem sap in maize plants

L Zhang, M Zhang, S Huang, L Li, Q Gao… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Microbiomes are important for crop performance. However, a deeper knowledge of crop-
associated microbial communities is needed to harness beneficial host-microbe interactions …

Proposed minimal standards for the use of genome data for the taxonomy of prokaryotes

J Chun, A Oren, A Ventosa… - … of systematic and …, 2018 - microbiologyresearch.org
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 …

High throughput ANI analysis of 90K prokaryotic genomes reveals clear species boundaries

C Jain, LM Rodriguez-R, AM Phillippy… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
A fundamental question in microbiology is whether there is continuum of genetic diversity
among genomes, or clear species boundaries prevail instead. Whole-genome similarity …

Large-scale generation and analysis of filamentous fungal DNA barcodes boosts coverage for kingdom fungi and reveals thresholds for fungal species and higher …

D Vu, M Groenewald, M De Vries… - Studies in …, 2019 - ingentaconnect.com
Species identification lies at the heart of biodiversity studies that has in recent years
favoured DNA-based approaches. Microbial Biological Resource Centres are a rich source …

A large-scale evaluation of algorithms to calculate average nucleotide identity

SH Yoon, S Ha, J Lim, S Kwon, J Chun - Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, 2017 - Springer
Average nucleotide identity (ANI) is a category of computational analysis that can be used to
define species boundaries of Archaea and Bacteria. Calculating ANI usually involves the …

Introducing EzBioCloud: a taxonomically united database of 16S rRNA gene sequences and whole-genome assemblies

SH Yoon, SM Ha, S Kwon, J Lim… - … of systematic and …, 2017 - microbiologyresearch.org
The recent advent of DNA sequencing technologies facilitates the use of genome
sequencing data that provide means for more informative and precise classification and …

The Microbial Genomes Atlas (MiGA) webserver: taxonomic and gene diversity analysis of Archaea and Bacteria at the whole genome level

LM Rodriguez-R, S Gunturu, WT Harvey… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The small subunit ribosomal RNA gene (16S rRNA) has been successfully used to
catalogue and study the diversity of prokaryotic species and communities but it offers limited …