4 Lipid and Cell-Wall Analysis in Bacterial Systematics

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Recent advances in the biochemistry of microorganisms have revealed that cell-component analysis can be effectively applied to bacterial systematics, providing the basis of chemotaxonomy. Analyses of cell components are coming to be essential tools not only for bacterial classification but also for identification. The sequence of chromosomal DNA holds the essential genetic information for an organism. Phylogenetic relationships are often examined using data on nucleotide sequences of ribosomal RNA. However, it is still impossible to determine the sequences of large polynucleotides for the number of organisms sufficient for taxonomic purposes. DNA (RNA) homologies, which have been applied to various kinds of bacteria, present useful information on bacterial systematics. Homology indices are values used in comparing microorganisms. DNA homology data contribute to the clarification, not only of the relatedness of two organisms, but also of the evaluation of phenotypic characteristics.

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