Re-evaluating prokaryotic species

@article{Gevers2005ReevaluatingPS,
  title={Re-evaluating prokaryotic species},
  author={Dirk Gevers and Frederick Cohan and Jeffrey G. Lawrence and Brian G. Spratt and Tom Coenye and Edward J. Feil and Erko Stackebrandt and Yves Van de Peer and Peter A. Vandamme and Fabiano Lopes Thompson and Jean Swings},
  journal={Nature Reviews Microbiology},
  year={2005},
  volume={3},
  pages={733-739}
}
There is no widely accepted concept of species for prokaryotes, and assignment of isolates to species is based on measures of phenotypic or genome similarity. The current methods for defining prokaryotic species are inadequate and incapable of keeping pace with the levels of diversity that are being uncovered in nature. Prokaryotic taxonomy is being influenced by advances in microbial population genetics, ecology and genomics, and by the ease with which sequence data can be obtained. Here, we… 
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