Phylogeny and Biodiversity of Prokaryotes

Philippe Normand (1) , Pierre Caumette (2)

1 LEM - Laboratoire d'Ecologie Microbienne - UMR 5557
2 IPREM - Institut des sciences analytiques et de physico-chimie pour l'environnement et les materiaux

Creating a hierarchical system for microbes began as soon as microbes were discovered and has been constantly evolving ever since. The larger categories, the techniques to define taxa, and the bibliographical conventions, all these are regularly changing. At the moment, there are 30 bacterial phyla and 6 archaeal phyla that are described. The impact of genomes on taxonomy and phylogeny is also discussed.

Mots clés: Evolution; Family; Genome; Genus; Kingdom; Locus; Order; Phylogeny; Species; Taxonomy

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

Philippe Normand, Pierre Caumette. Phylogeny and Biodiversity of Prokaryotes. Jean-Claude Bertrand; Philippe Normand; Bernard Ollivier; Télesphore Sime-Ngando. Prokaryotes and Evolution, Springer International Publishing, pp.23-55, 2018, 978-3-319-99784-1. ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-99784-1_2⟩. ⟨hal-02477651⟩