Taxonomy bacterial

Wayne LG et al. (1991) Fourth report of the cooperative, open-ended study of slowly growing mycobacteria by the international working group on mycobacterial taxonomy. Int J Syst Bacterial 41 463-472. 

These studies have revealed a number of cardinal aspects of microbial ecology (a) the complexity of bacterial ecosystems, (b) the number of organisms of hitherto undetermined taxonomy, (c) the existence of organisms that have not been cultivated, and (d) the difficulty of assigning metabolic roles to many of the genomic sequences that have been revealed. Some examples are given to... 

M. P. Lechevalier, Lipids in bacterial taxonomy a taxonomist s view, Crit. Rev. Microbiol. 5 109 (1976). 

Gtirtler, V. Mayall, B. C. Genomic approaches to typing, taxonomy and evolution of bacterial isolates. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2001, 51, 3-16. 

Suzuki, K. Application of mass spectrometry to bacterial taxonomy. Cellular fatty acids and isoprenoid quinones. Iyo Masu Kenkyukai Koenshu 1987,12,45-53. 

Lay, J. O., Jr. MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry and bacterial taxonomy TrAC, Trends Anal. Chem. 2000,19, 507-516. 

The predilection of bacteria to associate with surfaces is the primary organizing principle of community structure. ZoBell (1943) presented a conceptual model of this organization surfaces concentrate nutrients bacterial attachment to surfaces maximizes concentration gradients and reduces diffusion distances packing cells on surfaces improves retention of extracellular enzymes. Over the next 40 years, the study of attached microbial communities became an integral part of several fields (see Chapter 12). The importance of periphyton, or aufwuchs, in stream metabolism was established (Hynes, 1970 Geesey et al., 1978 Stevenson et al., 1996). Comparative studies of community organization and activity in relation to substratum produced a taxonomy for attached communities epilithon, epiphyton,... 

In addition, the analysis of the fatty acids in a complex lipid may provide a view of the nutritional and metabolic history of the microorganism (see also Section 16.1). Also, problems in bacterial taxonomy were solved based on fatty acid distribution, which was used as a fingerprint for different bacteria. 

Veron, M. and L. Le Minor. 1975. Nutrition et taxonomie des Enterobacteriaceae et bacteries voisines. III. Caracteres nutritionnels et differentiation des groupes taxonomiques. Ann. Microbiol. (Inst. Pasteur) 126B 125-147. 

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