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Table of Contents

1. Taxonomy of Prokaryotes - Introduction
FA Rainey and A Oren

2. How to Write a Taxonomic Paper
FA Rainey

3. Phenotypic and Physiological Characterization Methods
NR Krieg and PJ Padgett

4. Microscopy
M Rohde

5. Peptidoglycan Structure
P Schumann

6. Cell Wall Teichoic Acids in the Taxonomy and Characterization of Gram-Positive Bacteria
NV Potekhina, GM Streshinskaya, EM Tul’skaya and AS Shashkov

7. The Identification of Polar Lipids in Prokaryotes
MS da Costa, L Albuquerque, MF Nobre and R Wait

8. The Identification of Fatty Acids in Bacteria
MS da Costa, L Albuquerque, MF Nobre and R Wait

9. The Extraction and Identification of Respiratory Lipoquinones of Prokaryotes and their Use in Taxonomy
MS da Costa, L Albuquerque, MF Nobre and R Wait

10. Detection and Characterization of Mycolic Acids and their Use in Taxonomy and Classification
AAF Yassin

11. Polyamines
H-J Busse

12. Characterization of Pigments of Prokaryotes
A Oren

13. Characterization of Prokaryotes Using MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry
B Dridi and M Drancourt

14. Determination of the G+C Content of Prokaryotes
NM Mesbah, WB Whitman and M Mesbah

15. DNA-DNA hybridization
R Rosselló-Móra, M Urdiain and A López-López

16. The Use of rRNA Gene Sequence Data in the Classification and Identification of Prokaryotes
W Ludwig, FO Glöckner and P Yilmaz

17. Mutilocus Sequence Determination and Analysis
P De Vos

18. Whole Genome Sequence Comparisons in Taxonomy
R Borriss, C Rueckert, J Blom, O Bezuidt, O Reva and H-P Klenk

19. How to Name New Genera and Species of Prokaryotes?
A Oren

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