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Phylogeny and Biodiversity of Prokaryotes

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Creating a hierarchical system for microbes began as soon as microbes were discovered and has been constantly evolving ever since. The larger categories, the techniques to define taxa, and the bibliographical conventions, all these are regularly changing. At the moment, there are 30 bacterial phyla and 6 archaeal phyla that are described. The impact of genomes on taxonomy and phylogeny is also discussed.

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Normand, P., Caumette, P. (2018). Phylogeny and Biodiversity of Prokaryotes. In: Bertrand, JC., Normand, P., Ollivier, B., Sime-Ngando, T. (eds) Prokaryotes and Evolution. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99784-1_2

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