Use of gene sequences as type for naming prokaryotes
- Author(s)
- Gilbert Greub, Trestan Pillonel, Patrik M Bavoil, Nicole Borel, Lee Ann Campbell, Deborah Dean, Scott Hefty, Matthias Horn, Servaas A Morré, Scot P Ouellette, Yvonne Pannekoek, Mirja Puolakkainen, Peter Timms, Raphael Valdivia, Daisy Vanrompay
- Abstract
The International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes (ICSP) discussed and rejected in 2020 a proposal to modify the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes to allow the use of gene sequences as type for naming prokaryotes. An alternative nomenclatural code, the Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes Described from Sequence Data (SeqCode), which considers genome sequences as type material for naming species, was published in 2022. Members of the ICSP subcommittee for the taxonomy of the phylum Chlamydiae (Chlamydiota) consider that the use of gene sequences as type would benefit the taxonomy of microorganisms that are difficult to culture such as the chlamydiae and other strictly intracellular bacteria. We recommend the registration of new names of uncultured prokaryotes in the SeqCode registry.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science
- External organisation(s)
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Universität Zürich (UZH), University of Washington, University of California, San Francisco, University of Kansas, VU University Medical Center Amsterdam, Maastricht University (UM), University of Nebraska Medical Center, Helsinki University Hospital, University of the Sunshine Coast, Duke University, Ghent University , Université de Lausanne, University of Helsinki
- Journal
- New microbes and new infections
- Volume
- 54
- No. of pages
- 4
- ISSN
- 2052-2975
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nmni.2023.101158
- Publication date
- 06-2023
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 106026 Ecosystem research, 106022 Microbiology
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Infectious Diseases, Microbiology
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/use-of-gene-sequences-as-type-for-naming-prokaryotes(a30bfc20-efaf-4e38-aff4-f9b8183de0b1).html