Molecular Identification, Systematics, and Population Structure of Prokaryotes

1. Exciting Times: The Challenge to be a Bacterial Systematist
Erko Stackebrandt

2. DNA-DNA Reassociation Methods Applied to Microbial Taxonomy and Their Critical Evaluation
Ramon Rosselló-Mora

3. DNA Fingerprinting Techniques Applied to the Identification, Taxonomy and Community Analysis of Prokaryotes
Rüdiger Pukall

4. Multiple Locus VNTR (Variable Number of Tandem Repeat) Analysis
Gilles Vergnaud, Christine Pourcel

5. Bacterial Phylogeny Reconstruction from Molecular Sequences
Shigeaki Harayama, Hiroaki Kasai

6. Integrated Databasing and Analysis
Luc Vauterin, Paul Vauterin

7. Assessment of Microbial Phylogenetic Diversity Based on Environmental Nucleic Acids
Josh D. Neufeld, William W. Mohn

8. Metagenome Analyses
Frank Oliver Glöckner, Anke Meyerdierks

9. DNA Microarrays for Bacterial Genotyping
Ulrich Nübel, Markus Antwerpen, Birgit Strommenger, Wolfgang Witte

Keywords: Life Sciences, Microbiology, Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Microbial Ecology