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14. Academic Publications
Pages 111-114

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From page 111...
... In addition to our main goal of providing up-to-date descriptive information on bacteria and archaea, we also provide an unofficial classification of the bacteria and the archaea using a phylogeny based on the 16S ribosomal RNA gene, which is the gene that is accepted as the hierarchical phylogeny in the prokaryotes. One of our aims has been to provide the scientific community with an inexpensive resource on bacterial taxonomy -- books that are not as expensive as most academic publications, which would be accessible even to graduate students and maybe even, in the case of one of our publications, to undergraduates.
From page 112...
... It is an interesting publication deal because we do everything up to the point of the typesetting and then deal directly with the commercial typesetter, which prints it, and Springer distributes it. In short, it is not the typical academic book situation where the editor collects the manuscripts and sends them to the publisher, which takes it from there.
From page 113...
... Each of the chapters describes all the information available on a particular genus and on all of the species of that genus, and that information includes all of the phenotypic data as well as some genotypic data. The chapter will also describe how to differentiate each particular species from the other species of the genus as well as how to differentiate particular genera from related genera.
From page 114...
... happy to have all of this be open access, but we will have to have some sort of funding to keep the activity moving along.


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