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A standardized bacterial taxonomy based on genome phylogeny substantially revises the tree of life 2018 2026 2020 2023 2.1k
  1. A standardized bacterial taxonomy based on genome phylogeny substantially revises the tree of life (2018)
    Donovan H. Parks, Maria Chuvochina et al. Nature Biotechnology
  2. Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting major functional capabilities (2020)
    David W. Waite, Maria Chuvochina et al. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY
  3. A standardized archaeal taxonomy for the Genome Taxonomy Database (2021)
    Christian Rinke, Maria Chuvochina et al. Nature Microbiology

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Comparative Genomic Analysis of the Class Epsilonproteobacteria and Proposed Reclassification to Epsilonbacteraeota (phyl. nov.)
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David W. Waite 3088 2233 221 607 55 5.3k
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Dinghua Li 3090 2687 251 597 42 7.1k
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