Taxonomy of Prokaryotes
Edited by- Fred Rainey, College of Basic Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, U.S.A.
- Aharon Oren, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, The Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Methods in Microbiology
Hardbound, 484 Pages
Published: December 2011
Imprint: Academic Press
ISBN: 978-0-12-387730-7
Contents
1. Taxonomy of Prokaryotes - Introduction
2. How to Write a Taxonomic Paper
FA Rainey and A Oren
FA Rainey3. Phenotypic and Physiological Characterization Methods
4. Microscopy
NR Krieg and PJ Padgett
M Rohde5. Peptidoglycan Structure
6. Cell Wall Teichoic Acids in the Taxonomy and Characterization of Gram-Positive Bacteria
P Schumann
NV Potekhina, GM Streshinskaya, EM Tulskaya and AS Shashkov7. The Identification of Polar Lipids in Prokaryotes
8. The Identification of Fatty Acids in Bacteria
MS da Costa, L Albuquerque, MF Nobre and R Wait
MS da Costa, L Albuquerque, MF Nobre and R Wait9. The Extraction and Identification of Respiratory Lipoquinones of Prokaryotes and their Use in Taxonomy
10. Detection and Characterization of Mycolic Acids and their Use in Taxonomy and Classification
MS da Costa, L Albuquerque, MF Nobre and R Wait
AAF Yassin11. Polyamines
12. Characterization of Pigments of Prokaryotes
H-J Busse
A Oren13. Characterization of Prokaryotes Using MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry
B Dridi and M Drancourt14. Determination of the G+C Content of Prokaryotes
15. DNA-DNA hybridization
NM Mesbah, WB Whitman and M Mesbah
R Rosselló-Móra, M Urdiain and A López-López16. The Use of rRNA Gene Sequence Data in the Classification and Identification of Prokaryotes
17. Mutilocus Sequence Determination and Analysis
W Ludwig, FO Glöckner and P Yilmaz
P De Vos18. Whole Genome Sequence Comparisons in Taxonomy
19. How to Name New Genera and Species of Prokaryotes?
R Borriss, C Rueckert, J Blom, O Bezuidt, O Reva and H-P Klenk
A Oren
