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      The 3Cs provide a novel concept of bacterial species: messages from the genome as illustrated by Salmonella.

      Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
      Classification, methods, Genome, Bacterial, Phylogeny, Salmonella, classification, genetics

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          A key issue troubling bacterial taxonomy and systematics is the lack of a biological species definition. Criteria to be used for defining bacterial species on genetic and biological bases should be able to reveal clear-cut boundaries among clusters of bacteria. To date, DNA-DNA re-association assays and ribosomal RNA sequence comparison have been useful in determining relative evolutionary distances among bacteria but the data are continuous and thus cannot define bacterial clusters as taxonomic units to be called species. Using Salmonella as models, we have looked for definite genetic and biologic uniqueness of clusters of bacteria. Based on our findings that each Salmonella lineage has a unique genome structure shared by strains of the same lineage but not overlapping with strains of other Salmonella lineages, we conclude that this is a result of genetic isolation following divergence of the bacteria. We propose that there should be genetic boundaries between different species of bacteria at the genomic level, which awaits further genomic information for validation.

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          22113699
          10.1007/s10482-011-9680-0

          Chemistry
          Classification,methods,Genome, Bacterial,Phylogeny,Salmonella,classification,genetics
          Chemistry
          Classification, methods, Genome, Bacterial, Phylogeny, Salmonella, classification, genetics

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