New Approaches to Prokaryotic Systematics

1. The Need for Change: Embracing the Genome<br>William B. Whitman<br>2. An Introduction to Phylogenetics and The Tree of Life1<br>Tom A. Williams and Sarah E. Heap<br>3. The All-Species Living Tree Project<br>Pablo Yarza and Raul Munoz<br>4. 16S rRNA Gene-based Identification of Bacteria and Archaea using the EzTaxon Server<br>Mincheol Kim and Jongsik Chun<br>5. Revolutionising Prokaryotic Systematics Through Next-Generation Sequencing<br>Vartul Sangal, Leena Nieminen, Nicholas P. Tucker and Paul A. Hoskisson<br>6. Whole Genome Analyses: Average Nucleotide Identity<br>David R. Arahal<br>7. Whole-Genome Sequencing for Rapid and Accurate Identification of Bacterial Transmission Pathways<br>Simon R. Harris and Chinyere K. Okoro<br>8. Identification of Conserved Indels that are useful for Classification and Evolutionary Studies<br>Radhey S. Gupta<br>9. Reconciliation Approaches to Determining HGT, Duplications, and Losses in Gene Trees<br>Olga K.Kamneva and Naomi L. Ward<br>10. Multi-locus Sequence Typing and the Gene-by-Gene Approach to Bacterial Classification and Analysis of Population Variation<br>Alison J. Cody, Julia S. Bennett and Martin C.J. Maiden<br>11. Multilocus Sequence Analysis: Bringing Bacterial Systematics to the Next Level <br>Xiaoying Rong and Ying Huang <br>12. Bacterial Typing and Identification by Genomic Analysis of 16s-23s rRNA Intergenic Spacer (ITS) Sequences<br>Volker Gürtler, Gangavarapu Subrahmanyam, Malathi Shakar, Biswajit Maiti and Indrani Karunasagar <br>13. MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry Applied to Classification and Identification of Bacteria<br>Peter Schumann and Thomas Maier<br>14. Continuing Importance of the “Phenotype” in the Genomic Era<br>Peter Kämpfer