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Addressing the sublime scale of the microbial world: reconciling an appreciation of microbial diversity with the need to describe species

There are fewer than 20,000 prokaryotic species with validly published names, meaning >99% of a reasonable estimate of microbial diversity remains formally unnamed. Here we explore the damaging consequences of the current practice in which each new species is described in a standardized publicati...

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Autores principales: Sutcliffe, I.C., Rosselló-Móra, R., Trujillo, M.E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8408622/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34484799
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nmni.2021.100931