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Polyphasic taxonomy, a consensus approach to bacterial systematics.
Microbiological reviews - 1 Jun 1996
Vandamme P, Pot B, Gillis M, de Vos P, Kersters K, Swings J
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Over the last 25 years, a much broader range of taxonomic studies of bacteria has gradually replaced the former reliance upon morphological, physiological, and biochemical characterization. This polyphasic taxonomy takes into account all available phenotypic and genotypic data and integrates them in a consensus type of classification, framed in a general phylogeny derived from 16S rRNA sequence analysis. In some...
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