Proposal to include the rank of phylum in the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes

Author:

Oren Aharon1,da Costa Milton S.2,Garrity George M.3,Rainey Fred A.4,Rosselló-Móra Ramon5,Schink Bernhard6,Sutcliffe Iain7,Trujillo Martha E.8,Whitman William B.9

Affiliation:

1. Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, The Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel

2. Microbiology Unit, BIOCANT Biotechnological Park, 3060-197 Cantanhede, Portugal

3. Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Biomedical Physical Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-4320, USA

4. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alaska Anchorage, AK 99508, USA

5. Department of Ecology and Marine Resources, Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA UIB-CSIC), 07190 Esporles, Spain

6. Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany

7. Department of Applied Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST, UK

8. Departamento de Microbiología y Genética, Campus Miguel de Unamuno, Universidad de Salamanca, 37007 Salamanca, Spain

9. Department of Microbiology, 527 Biological Sciences Building, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-2605, USA

Abstract

The International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes covers the nomenclature of prokaryotes up to the rank of class. We propose here modifying the Code to include the rank of phylum so that names of phyla that fulfil the rules of the Code will obtain standing in the nomenclature.

Publisher

Microbiology Society

Subject

General Medicine,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics,Microbiology

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