Adding genomic 'foliage' to the tree of life

Alan Walker

doi:10.1038/nrmicro3203

Adding genomic 'foliage' to the tree of life

Alan Walker

The Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

11 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

At least 60 bacterial or archaeal phyla are currently recognized on the basis of small subunit ribosomal RNA or metagenomic data from environmental surveys. However, many phyla have either no or very few cultured representative species, as current culture collections are biased towards microorganisms of medical or industrial importance. Therefore, our understanding of microbial life has large gaps

Original language	English
Article number	78
Journal	Nature Reviews Microbiology
Volume	12
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro3203
Publication status	Published - Feb 2014

Keywords

Archaea
Bacteria
Genome, Archaeal
Genome, Bacterial
Genomics
Metagenomics
Phylogeny

Access to Document

10.1038/nrmicro3203

Cite this

@article{76e88a7899074375b2cab0adbdf2b55d,

title = "Adding genomic 'foliage' to the tree of life",

abstract = "At least 60 bacterial or archaeal phyla are currently recognized on the basis of small subunit ribosomal RNA or metagenomic data from environmental surveys. However, many phyla have either no or very few cultured representative species, as current culture collections are biased towards microorganisms of medical or industrial importance. Therefore, our understanding of microbial life has large gaps",

keywords = "Archaea, Bacteria, Genome, Archaeal, Genome, Bacterial, Genomics, Metagenomics, Phylogeny",

author = "Alan Walker",

year = "2014",

month = feb,

doi = "10.1038/nrmicro3203",

language = "English",

volume = "12",

journal = "Nature Reviews Microbiology",

issn = "1740-1526",

publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",

number = "2",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Adding genomic 'foliage' to the tree of life

AU - Walker, Alan

PY - 2014/2

Y1 - 2014/2

N2 - At least 60 bacterial or archaeal phyla are currently recognized on the basis of small subunit ribosomal RNA or metagenomic data from environmental surveys. However, many phyla have either no or very few cultured representative species, as current culture collections are biased towards microorganisms of medical or industrial importance. Therefore, our understanding of microbial life has large gaps

AB - At least 60 bacterial or archaeal phyla are currently recognized on the basis of small subunit ribosomal RNA or metagenomic data from environmental surveys. However, many phyla have either no or very few cultured representative species, as current culture collections are biased towards microorganisms of medical or industrial importance. Therefore, our understanding of microbial life has large gaps

KW - Archaea

KW - Bacteria

KW - Genome, Archaeal

KW - Genome, Bacterial

KW - Genomics

KW - Metagenomics

KW - Phylogeny

U2 - 10.1038/nrmicro3203

DO - 10.1038/nrmicro3203

M3 - Article

C2 - 24429416

SN - 1740-1526

VL - 12

JO - Nature Reviews Microbiology

JF - Nature Reviews Microbiology

IS - 2

M1 - 78

ER -

Adding genomic 'foliage' to the tree of life

Abstract

Keywords

Access to Document

Fingerprint

Cite this