Bookedited by Michael Goodfellow, Iain Sutcliffe, Jongsik Chun.
Contents:
Chapter 1. The Need for Change: Embracing the Genome / William B. Whitman
Chapter 2. An Introduction to Phylogenetics and the Tree of Life / Tom A. Williams, Sarah E. Heaps
Chapter 3. The All-Species Living Tree Project / Pablo Yarza, Raul Munoz
Chapter 4. 16S rRNA Gene-Based Identification of Bacteria and Archaea using the EzTaxon Server / Mincheol Kim, Jongsik Chun
Chapter 5. Revolutionizing Prokaryotic Systematics Through Next-Generation Sequencing / Vartul Sangal, Leena Nieminen, Nicholas P. Tucker, Paul A. Hoskisson
Chapter 6. Whole-Genome Analyses: Average Nucleotide Identity / David R. Arahal
Chapter 7. Whole-Genome Sequencing for Rapid and Accurate Identification of Bacterial Transmission Pathways / Simon R. Harris, Chinyere K. Okoro
Chapter 8. Identification of Conserved Indels that are Useful for Classification and Evolutionary Studies / Radhey S. Gupta
Chapter 9. Reconciliation Approaches to Determining HGT, Duplications, and Losses in Gene Trees / Olga K. Kamneva, Naomi L. Ward
Chapter 10. Multi-Locus Sequence Typing and the Gene-by-Gene Approach to Bacterial Classification and Analysis of Population Variation / Alison J. Cody, Julia S. Bennett, Martin C.J. Maiden
Chapter 11. Multi-locus Sequence Analysis: Taking Prokaryotic Systematics to the Next Level / Xiaoying Rong, Ying Huang
Chapter 12. Bacterial Typing and Identification By Genomic Analysis of 16S-23S rRNA Intergenic Transcribed Spacer (ITS) Sequences / Volker Gürtler, Gangavarapu Subrahmanyam, Malathi Shekar, Biswajit Maiti, Indrani Karunasagar
Chapter 13. MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry Applied to Classification and Identification of Bacteria / Peter Schumann, Thomas Maier
Chapter 14. Continuing Importance of the “Phenotype” in the Genomic Era / Peter Kämpfer
Index.