Molecular Taxonomy And The Discovery Of A New Cell Type

(Woese and Fox 1977; Karlin, Brocchieri et al. 2002; Yutin, Wolf et al. 2009; Calo, Kaminski et al. 2010; Jarrell, Walters et al. 2011)

Metagenomics and environmental sequencing

(Hugenholtz, Goebel et al. 1998; Streit and Schmitz 2004; Edwards and Rohwer 2005; Huse, Dethlefsen et al. 2008; Tamames and Moya 2008; Galand, Casamayor et al. 2009; Li, Guo et al. 2009; Banik and Brady 2010; Chaffron, Rehrauer et al. 2010; Duan and Feng 2010; Fonseca, Carvalho et al. 2010; Inskeep, Rusch et al. 2010; McLellan, Huse et al. 2010; Gilbert and Dupont 2011; Gilbert, Laverock et al. 2011; Hess, Sczyrba et al. 2011)

Molecular taxonomies of particular cell functions

(Cavalier-Smith 1991; Grayling, Sandman et al. 1996; Verhees, Kengen et al. 2003; Ouhammouch 2004; Reeve, Bailey et al. 2004; Fuerst 2005; Sandman and Reeve 2005; Siebers and Schonheit 2005; Koga and Morii 2007; Valentine 2007; Fournier and Gogarten 2008; Luijsterburg, White et al. 2008; Ng, Zolghadr et al. 2008; Amaral-Zettler, McCliment et al. 2009; Aves 2009; Kanhere and Vingron 2009; Wilkins and Holliday 2009; Berg, Kockelkorn et al. 2010; Calo, Kaminski et al. 2010; Cavalier-Smith 2010; Ellen, Zolghadr et al. 2010; Lonhienne, Sagulenko et al. 2010; Schleper and Nicol 2010; Sun and Caetano-Anolles 2010; Albers and Meyer 2011; Atkinson, Hauryliuk et al. 2011; Busiek and Margolin 2011; Fuerst and Sagulenko 2011; Garcia-Lopez and Navarro 2011; Pelve, Lindas et al. 2011; Werner and Grohmann 2011)

Prokaryotic taxonomy

(Fox, Stackebrandt et al. 1980; Stackebrandt and Woese 1984; Hugenholtz, Goebel et al. 1998; Lindsay, Webb et al. 2001; Schulz and Jorgensen 2001; Fuerst 2005; Gevers, Dawyndt et al. 2006; Dolan and Margulis 2007; Huse, Dethlefsen et al. 2008; Koonin and Wolf 2008; Gribaldo and Brochier 2009; Kamneva, Liberles et al. 2010; Lonhienne, Sagulenko et al. 2010; Santarella-Mellwig, Franke et al. 2010; Fuerst and Sagulenko 2011; Pester, Schleper et al. 2011; Valas and Bourne 2011)

Eukaryotic taxonomy

(Medina, Collins et al. 2001; Litman, Cannon et al. 2005; Burki and Pawlowski 2006; Heubl, Bringmann et al. 2006; Lee, Risom et al. 2007; Delsuc, Tsagkogeorga et al. 2008; Kolisko, Cepicka et al. 2008; Hampl, Hug et al. 2009; Jeyaprakash and Hoy 2009; Pawlowski and Burki 2009; Cotton and McInerney 2010; Edgecombe 2010; Fritz-Laylin, Prochnik et al. 2010; Olsson, Levit et al. 2010; McMahon, Hayward et al. 2011; Mora, Tittensor et al. 2011; Rosling, Cox et al. 2011; Wiegmann, Trautwein et al. 2011)

Tree of life (strictly branching phylogenies) versus networked phylogenies

(Kunin, Goldovsky et al. 2005; Snel, Huynen et al. 2005; Beiko and Charlebois 2007; Doolittle and Bapteste 2007; Beiko, Doolittle et al. 2008; Lopez and Bapteste 2009; Marcet-Houben and Gabaldon 2009; Ragan 2009; Puigbo, Wolf et al. 2010; Martin 2011)

Human microbiomes

(Gill, Pop et al. 2006; Antonopoulos, Huse et al. 2009; Aziz 2009; Grice, Kong et al. 2009; Hamady and Knight 2009; Peterson, Garges et al. 2009; Ellrott, Jaroszewski et al. 2010; Jones, Sun et al. 2010; Kuczynski J 2010; Nelson, Weinstock et al. 2010; Arumugam, Raes et al. 2011; Caporaso, Lauber et al. 2011; Kinross, Darzi et al. 2011; Parfrey, Walters et al. 2011)

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