Taxonomy of Prokaryotes

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• 1. Taxonomy of Prokaryotes - IntroductionFA Rainey and A Oren2. How to Write a Taxonomic PaperFA Rainey3. Phenotypic and Physiological Characterization MethodsNR Krieg and PJ Padgett4. Microscopy M Rohde5. Peptidoglycan StructureP Schumann6. Cell Wall Teichoic Acids in the Taxonomy and Characterization of Gram-Positive BacteriaNV Potekhina, GM Streshinskaya, EM Tul’skaya and AS Shashkov7. The Identification of Polar Lipids in ProkaryotesMS da Costa, L Albuquerque, MF Nobre and R Wait8. The Identification of Fatty Acids in BacteriaMS da Costa, L Albuquerque, MF Nobre and R Wait9. The Extraction and Identification of Respiratory Lipoquinones of Prokaryotes and their Use in TaxonomyMS da Costa, L Albuquerque, MF Nobre and R Wait 10. Detection and Characterization of Mycolic Acids and their Use in Taxonomy and ClassificationAAF Yassin11. PolyaminesH-J Busse12. Characterization of Pigments of ProkaryotesA Oren13. Characterization of Prokaryotes Using MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry B Dridi and M Drancourt 14. Determination of the G+C Content of ProkaryotesNM Mesbah, WB Whitman and M Mesbah15. DNA-DNA hybridizationR Rosselló-Móra, M Urdiain and A López-López16. The Use of rRNA Gene Sequence Data in the Classification and Identification of ProkaryotesW Ludwig, FO Glöckner and P Yilmaz17. Mutilocus Sequence Determination and AnalysisP De Vos18. Whole Genome Sequence Comparisons in Taxonomy R Borriss, C Rueckert, J Blom, O Bezuidt, O Reva and H-P Klenk19. How to Name New Genera and Species of Prokaryotes?A Oren