Prokaryotic Systematics: Theoretical Overview in the Light of Molecular Advances

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Title: Prokaryotic Systematics: Theoretical Overview in the Light of Molecular Advances
Author/Creator: Kurtboke, D I
Description: Systematics describes the ordering of information on organisms and plays an important role in communicating information within biological sciences. Systematics seeks to reveal the phenotypic and genotypic diversity of organisms while relating this information to natural interactions and evolutionary history. Systematics may utilise a wide range of data and is not limited to the experimental methods that it may draw on in order to make sensible comparisons between organisms. Systematics requires an underlying order, and both systematics and taxonomy are strongly dependent on theory and philosophy, which are used to create this order. Systematics is a complex area, which has seen much change and progress in the last century. Developments in molecular biology have been adapted in line with the theory and philosophy and have become established in systematics. In the molecular era, accumulated data including those genomics-derived will be the driving force behind the revalidation of currently used theories and hypotheses formulated in systematics and lead towards the establishment of a ‘genomic taxonomy’.
Relation: eLS / Katherine E Cullen (ed):
Relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470015902.a0000448.pub2
Year: 2014
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Subject: FoR 0605 (Microbiology) | prokaryotes | evolution | systematics | taxonomy | genomics | phylogenomics | biogeography

Collection(s): Research Publications
Resource Type: Book Chapter
Identifier: ISBN: 9780470015902
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