Definition
The All-Species Living Tree Project (LTP) is an international initiative for the creation and maintenance of highly curated 16SrRNA and 23SrRNA gene sequence databases, alignments, and phylogenetic trees for all the type strains of Bacteria and Archaea.
Introduction
Classification and identification of Bacteria and Archaea came across to a turning point around 35 years ago. It was the time when Carl Woese and co-workers demonstrated that ribosomal markers were appropriate to infer genealogical relationships by means of phylogenetic reconstructions (Fox et al. 1977). Rapidly, comparative analysis of rRNA gene sequences became a standard procedure with mature implications in microbial ecology and taxonomy: culture-independent exploration of ecosystems’ diversity...
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- Sequence Entry
- Ribosomal Operon
- Maximum Likelihood Reconstruction
- Heterotypic Synonym
- Desulfitobacterium Hafniense
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Yarza, P. et al. (2013). All-Species Living Tree Project. In: Nelson, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Metagenomics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6418-1_740-8
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