Development of PCR primers specific for the amplification and direct sequencing of gyrB genes from microbacteria, order Actinomycetales

CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice

Julie Thompson, Desmond G. Higgins, Toby J. Gibson · Nucleic Acids Research · 1994 · 64.9K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Bioinformatics, Sequence Analysis +14

Taxonomic Note: A Place for DNA-DNA Reassociation and 16S rRNA Sequence Analysis in the Present Species Definition in Bacteriology

Erko Stackebrandt, Brett M. Goebel · INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY · 1994 · 7.1K citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Microbiology +17

Multilocus sequence typing: A portable approach to the identification of clones within populations of pathogenic microorganisms

Martin Maiden, Jane A. Bygraves, Edward J. Feil et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1998 · 3.8K citations

Life Sciences, Genetics, Microbiology +16

Proposal for a New Hierarchic Classification System, Actinobacteria classis nov.

Erko Stackebrandt, F. A. RAINEY, Naomi Ward-Rainey · International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology · 1997 · 1.7K citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Microbiology +17

Report of the ad hoc committee for the re-evaluation of the species definition in bacteriology.

Erko Stackebrandt, Wilhelm Frederiksen, George M Garrity et al. · INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY · 2002 · 1.5K citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Microbiology +16