在SeqCode下验证 prokaryotic 名称的选择和考虑
Stephanus N Venter1, Luis M Rodriguez-R2, Maria Chuvochina3
1Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, and Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
Systematic and applied microbiology
|September 21, 2024
概括
对未培养的细菌和古生物的正式命名对于理解 prokaryotic 多样性和进化至关重要. 新的SeqCode提供了一条验证这些微生物名称的途径,超越了临时标识符.
科学领域:
- 微生物学 微生物学
- 纳税学是一种分类学.
- 生物信息学是一种生物信息学.
背景情况:
- 稳定的分类名称对于编目 prokaryotic 多样性和促进科学交流至关重要.
- 目前的命名法,根据国际核细胞命名法 (ICNP),已经成功地命名了估计的一小部分核细胞物种,主要是那些可培养的.
- 大多数 prokaryotic 物种仍然没有培养,这阻碍了它们的正式分类和研究.
研究的目的:
- 介绍关于验证未培养 prokaryotic taxa 的名称的选择和考虑.
- 引入最近建立的从序列数据 (SeqCode) 描述的 Prokaryotes 命名法典作为解决方案.
- 鼓励社区参与非文化多数的正式命名.
主要方法:
- 对当前的 prokaryotic 命名规范实践的审查.
- 探索SeqCode提供的框架.
- 为分类学专家讨论社区参与策略.
主要成果:
- 在处理大量未培养的原始细胞方面,ICNP存在局限性.
- SeqCode提供了一个基于序列数据的名称正式验证的机制.
- 认定社区参与对于SeqCode的成功实施至关重要.
结论:
- "SeqCode"代表了 prokaryotic 分类学的重大进步,使以前无法分类的类型得以正式命名.
- 对未经培养的原核生物进行正式命名,将增强我们对微生物多样性和进化的理解.
- 科学界的积极参与对于SeqCode的广泛采用和成功至关重要.
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