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Pallen, Mark J. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1807-3657
(2021)
The status Candidatus for uncultured taxa of Bacteria and Archaea: SWOT analysis.
International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 71 (9).
ISSN 1466-5026
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Abstract
The status Candidatus was introduced to bacterial taxonomy in the 1990s to accommodate uncultured taxa defined by analyses of DNA sequences. Here I review the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) associated with the status Can-didatus in the light of a quarter century of use, twinned with recent developments in bacterial taxonomy and sequence-based taxonomic discovery. Despite ambiguities as to its scope, philosophical objections to its use and practical problems in imple-mentation, the status Candidatus has now been applied to over 1000 taxa and has been widely adopted by journals and data-bases. Although lacking priority under the International Code for Nomenclature of Prokaryotes, many Candidatus names have already achieved de facto standing in the academic literature and in databases via description of a taxon in a peer-reviewed publication, alongside deposition of a genome sequence and there is a clear path to valid publication of such names on culture. Continued and increased use of Candidatus names provides an alternative to the potential upheaval that might accompany creation of a new additional code of nomenclature and provides a ready solution to the urgent challenge of naming many thou-sands of newly discovered but uncultured species.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Funding Information: Mark Pallen is supported by the Quadram Institute Bioscience BBSRC-funded Strategic Program: Microbes in the Food Chain (project no. BB/R012504/1) and its constituent project BBS/E/F/000PR10351 (Theme 3, Microbial Communities in the Food Chain) and by the Medical Research Council CLIMB-BIG-DATA grant MR/T030062/1. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | bacterial nomenclature,candidatus,genome-based taxonomy,uncultured bacteria,microbiology,ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2400/2404 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Oct 2024 10:30 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Oct 2024 00:04 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/97097 |
| DOI: | 10.1099/ijsem.0.005000 |
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