Nomenclature: Bergery’s Manual
Bergey’s Guide for Determinative Bacteriology: Since 1923
- Separates prokaryotes into 35 groups (30 are eubacteria and 5 are archaeobacteria)
- Based on Gram stain, morphology, endospores, metabolism, motility and reproduction (in Table 10-1, pp 247-249).
- Problems when ID based solely on observable traits since members may vary up to 40% in DNA homology, & others traits.