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Integrated Databasing and Analysis

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Molecular Identification, Systematics, and Population Structure of Prokaryotes

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Unlike higher organisms such as animals and plants, microorganisms cannot adequately be described in terms of morphological features. Microbiologists have been forced to use alternative features to characterize and describe the organisms they study. This has led to the exploration of a variety of phenotypic and genotypic treats, including biochemical and physiological properties, chemotaxonomical markers, protein patterns, DNA restriction and amplification fragment patterns, and DNA sequence analysis. Remarkably, although bacterial taxonomy is a young discipline compared to the taxonomies of higher organisms, it has quickly grown to be one of the most progressive in terms of the application and exploration of advanced molecular techniques.

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Vauterin, L., Vauterin, P. (2006). Integrated Databasing and Analysis. In: Stackebrandt, E. (eds) Molecular Identification, Systematics, and Population Structure of Prokaryotes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31292-5_6

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