Fergus G. Priest F. G. Priest Alberto Ramos-Cormenzana
The proceedings of a symposium held under the auspices of the Federation of European Microbiological Societies, September 1993, in Granada, Spain, devoted to microbial identification. Such a topic could not be addressed without some reference to the enabling discipline of classification, but the pri
The proceedings of a symposium held under the auspices of the Federation of European Microbiological Societies, September 1993, in Granada, Spain, dev...
F. G. Priest Alberto Ramos-Cormenzana B. J. Tindall
Bacterial taxonomy as a specialized discipline is practised by a minority but the applications of taxonomy are important to most, if not all microbiologists. It is the implementation of taxonomic ideas and practises which gives rise to identification and typing systems, procedures for the analysis and characterization of biodiversity, hypotheses about the evolution of micro-organisms, and improved procedures for the isolation and implementation of bacteria in biotechnological processes. Without taxonomic theory providing a sound basis to these many facets of microbiology there would be severe...
Bacterial taxonomy as a specialized discipline is practised by a minority but the applications of taxonomy are important to most, if not all microbiol...
