Taxonomy of Prokaryotes

1. Taxonomy of Prokaryotes - IntroductionFA Rainey and A Oren 2. How to Write a Taxonomic PaperFA Rainey 3. Phenotypic and Physiological Characterization MethodsNR Krieg and PJ Padgett 4. Microscopy M Rohde 5. Peptidoglycan StructureP Schumann 6. Cell Wall Teichoic Acids in the Taxonomy and Characterization of Gram-Positive BacteriaNV Potekhina, GM Streshinskaya, EM Tul'skaya and AS Shashkov 7. The Identification of Polar Lipids in ProkaryotesMS da Costa, L Albuquerque, MF Nobre and R Wait 8. The Identification of Fatty Acids in BacteriaMS da Costa, L Albuquerque, MF Nobre and R Wait 9. 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 Yassin 11. PolyaminesH-J Busse 12. Characterization of Pigments of ProkaryotesA Oren 13. 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 Mesbah 15. DNA-DNA hybridizationR Rosselló-Móra, M Urdiain and A López-López 16. The Use of rRNA Gene Sequence Data in the Classification and Identification of ProkaryotesW Ludwig, FO Glöckner and P Yilmaz 17. Mutilocus Sequence Determination and AnalysisP De Vos 18. Whole Genome Sequence Comparisons in Taxonomy R Borriss, C Rueckert, J Blom, O Bezuidt, O Reva and H-P Klenk 19. How to Name New Genera and Species of Prokaryotes?A Oren