<p>1. Taxonomy of Prokaryotes - Introduction<br>FA Rainey and A Oren</p> <p>2. How to Write a Taxonomic Paper<br>FA Rainey</p> <p>3. Phenotypic and Physiological Characterization Methods<br>NR Krieg and PJ Padgett</p> <p>4. Microscopy <br>M Rohde</p> <p>5. Peptidoglycan Structure<br>P Schumann</p> <p>6. Cell Wall Teichoic Acids in the Taxonomy and Characterization of Gram-Positive Bacteria<br>NV Potekhina, GM Streshinskaya, EM Tul’skaya and AS Shashkov</p> <p>7. The Identification of Polar Lipids in Prokaryotes<br>MS da Costa, L Albuquerque, MF Nobre and R Wait</p> <p>8. The Identification of Fatty Acids in Bacteria<br>MS da Costa, L Albuquerque, MF Nobre and R Wait</p> <p>9. The Extraction and Identification of Respiratory Lipoquinones of Prokaryotes and their Use in Taxonomy<br>MS da Costa, L Albuquerque, MF Nobre and R Wait </p> <p>10. Detection and Characterization of Mycolic Acids and their Use in Taxonomy and Classification<br>AAF Yassin</p> <p>11. Polyamines<br>H-J Busse</p> <p>12. Characterization of Pigments of Prokaryotes<br>A Oren</p> <p>13. Characterization of Prokaryotes Using MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry <br>B Dridi and M Drancourt<SUP> </p></SUP> <p>14. Determination of the G+C Content of Prokaryotes<br>NM Mesbah, WB Whitman and M Mesbah</p> <p>15. DNA-DNA hybridization<br>R Rosselló-Móra, M Urdiain and A López-López</p> <p>16. The Use of rRNA Gene Sequence Data in the Classification and Identification of Prokaryotes<br>W Ludwig, FO Glöckner and P Yilmaz</p> <p>17. Mutilocus Sequence Determination and Analysis<br>P De Vos</p> <p>18. Whole Genome Sequence Comparisons in Taxonomy <br>R Borriss, C Rueckert, J Blom, O Bezuidt, O Reva and<SUP> </SUP>H-P Klenk</p> <p>19. How to Name New Genera and Species of Prokaryotes?<br>A Oren</p>