Yang Suping, Lin Zhihua, Cui Xiaohua, Lian Jianke, Zhao Chungui, Qu Yinbo
Department of Biotechnology and Biotechnique, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou 362021, China.
Wei Sheng Wu Xue Bao. 2008 Nov;48(11):1562-6.
Anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria (APB) are good model organisms used to study the origin and evolution of life, photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation mechanism. With increasingly available genetic information and establishment of sequencing techniques for nucleic acid, more attention has been paid to exploration of APB resources from various habitats especially extremely environment. The pace of new species description has been increasing in recent years, and some new taxonomic taxa are also proposed, therefore, it is necessary to redefine APB and provide the newest taxonomic system of APB. We reviewed the problems and prospect about taxonomy of anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria. The definition, situation of the taxonomy, characteristics for APB identification are noted and commented from the discovery of APB up to now.
无氧光合细菌（APB）是用于研究生命起源与进化、光合作用和固氮机制的良好模式生物。随着越来越多的遗传信息可得以及核酸测序技术的建立，人们越来越关注从各种生境，尤其是极端环境中探索APB资源。近年来新物种描述的速度不断加快，还提出了一些新的分类单元，因此，有必要重新定义APB并提供最新的APB分类系统。我们综述了无氧光合细菌分类学的问题与前景。从APB的发现至今，对其定义、分类学状况、APB鉴定特征进行了阐述与评论。
