Towards standardisation of naming novel prokaryotic taxa in the age of high-throughput microbiology

Hildebrand FH,Pallen MP,Bork PB. (2020)

Gut

We thank Professor Oren for his interest in our work and for his constructive comments.1 In our recent article in Gut, we described the discovery of a new species that rose to high abundance in the human gut after treatment with ceftriaxone.2 We made the decision to propose taxonomic Latin names for this new species and for associated taxa because we wished to create a memorable, user-friendly, sustainable and transferable nomenclature that could be readily adopted by other researchers. Our proposals included the taxonomic hierarchy: ^UComantemales ord. nov., ^UComantemaea fam. nov., ^U Borkfalki gen. nov, ^U Borkfalki ceftriaxensis sp. nov.

Gut

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