New Approaches to Prokaryotic Systematics

1. The Need for Change: Embracing the GenomeWilliam B. Whitman2. An Introduction to Phylogenetics and The Tree of Life1Tom A. Williams and Sarah E. Heap3. The All-Species Living Tree ProjectPablo Yarza and Raul Munoz4. 16S rRNA Gene-based Identification of Bacteria and Archaea using the EzTaxon ServerMincheol Kim and Jongsik Chun5. Revolutionising Prokaryotic Systematics Through Next-Generation SequencingVartul Sangal, Leena Nieminen, Nicholas P. Tucker and Paul A. Hoskisson6. Whole Genome Analyses: Average Nucleotide IdentityDavid R. Arahal7. Whole-Genome Sequencing for Rapid and Accurate Identification of Bacterial Transmission PathwaysSimon R. Harris and Chinyere K. Okoro8. Identification of Conserved Indels that are useful for Classification and Evolutionary StudiesRadhey S. Gupta9. Reconciliation Approaches to Determining HGT, Duplications, and Losses in Gene TreesOlga K.Kamneva and Naomi L. Ward10. Multi-locus Sequence Typing and the Gene-by-Gene Approach to Bacterial Classification and Analysis of Population VariationAlison J. Cody, Julia S. Bennett and Martin C.J. Maiden11. Multilocus Sequence Analysis: Bringing Bacterial Systematics to the Next Level Xiaoying Rong and Ying Huang 12. Bacterial Typing and Identification by Genomic Analysis of 16s-23s rRNA Intergenic Spacer (ITS) SequencesVolker Gürtler, Gangavarapu Subrahmanyam, Malathi Shakar, Biswajit Maiti and Indrani Karunasagar 13. MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry Applied to Classification and Identification of BacteriaPeter Schumann and Thomas Maier14. Continuing Importance of the "Phenotype in the Genomic EraPeter Kämpfer