Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, the Institute of Life Sciences, and the Moshe Shilo Minerva Center for Marine Biogeochemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2012 Feb;62(Pt 2):263-271. doi: 10.1099/ijs.0.038653-0. Epub 2011 Dec 9.
The halophilic Archaea of the family Halobacteriaceae (36 genera with 129 species with standing in nomenclature as of November 2011) provide an excellent example of how changing concepts on prokaryote taxonomy and the development of new methods have influenced the way in which the taxonomy of a single group of prokaryotes is treated. This review gives an overview of the taxonomy of the family Halobacteriaceae, showing the impact that methods of phenotypic characterization, numerical taxonomy, chemotaxonomy and especially polar lipid analysis, 16S rRNA gene sequence comparisons, multilocus type analysis and comparative genomics have had on their classification.
嗜盐古菌科（Halobacteriaceae）（截至 2011 年 11 月有 36 个属和 129 个种具有命名地位）的嗜盐古菌为我们提供了一个极好的例子，说明了关于原核生物分类学的概念变化以及新方法的发展如何影响了对单个原核生物群分类的处理方式。本文综述了嗜盐古菌科的分类学，展示了表型特征分析方法、数值分类学、化学生态分类学，特别是极性脂分析、16S rRNA 基因序列比较、多位点类型分析和比较基因组学对其分类的影响。
