"一个名字有什么意思? 适合用途的细菌分类":会议报告
Sheila Patrick1, Laura Filkins2, Markus Goker3
1Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, 97 Lisburn Rd, Belfast BT9 7BL, UK.
概括
在DNA测序方面的进步正在彻底改变基因组学和 prokaryote 分类. 这需要适应新的微生物名称,影响实践微生物学,并要求更新命名规则.
科学领域:
- 微生物学 微生物学
- 人类基因组学是什么?
- 纳税学是一种分类学.
背景情况:
- 从历史上看, prokaryote 分类依赖于表型和环境数据.
- 全基因组测序和元基因组学加速了微生物的发现和进化关系的确定.
- 快速的进步需要重新评估 prokaryote 命名法.
研究的目的:
- 探讨基因组学进步和命名制度变化对实践微生物学的影响.
- 为了解决对影响应用领域的分类法变更的协商需求.
- 为了使基因组基因组学与"国际 Prokaryotes 命名法典"相协调.
主要方法:
- 一次分类学家,植物遗传学家和应用微生物学家的会议召开.
- 讨论的重点是新发现和命名体系的转变所带来的影响.
- 建议成立一个特设委员会来管理命名法变更.
主要成果:
- 在 prokaryotic 基因组学中发现的快速步伐对已建立的命名体系提出了挑战.
- 由于命名体系的不稳定性,实际微生物学 (例如,诊断,粮食安全) 存在潜在的危险.
- 成立了一个专门委员会,以缓解 prokaryotic 编号的变化.
结论:
- 由植物基因组学驱动的命名变化需要仔细考虑,以尽量减少应用微生物学中的干扰.
- 需要更明确的指导方针和更广泛的咨询来更新 prokaryote 命名法.
- 新委员会旨在弥合基因组数据和实际分类应用之间的差距.
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