Taxonomy is an organizing principle of biology and is ideally based on evolutionary relationships among organisms. Development of a robust bacterial taxonomy has been hindered by an inability to ...

We obtained 16S sequences from the Greengenes database, which extracts these sequences from public databases using quality filters as described previously (DeSantis et al., 2006). We only used ...

The entire history of living things – most of everything we know so far, that is – has been included in the "Open Tree of Life". This is a new resource, open and free to use by anyone in the world, ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Tree species and their names are a product of a two-part plant naming system ...