Ruan Jisheng
State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resource, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
Wei Sheng Wu Xue Bao. 2013 Jun 4;53(6):521-30.
Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology (hereinafter referred to as "Bergey's Manual") is the collection of academic views accepted by taxonomists in many countries. It has scientificity, unitarity and practicality. "Bergey's Manual" (special issue of Actinomycetes) divided into two parts (part A and part B) was published in May, 2012. Under the guidance and the organization of Michael Goodfellow et al., the great work has been completed successfully in May 2012. "Bergey's Manual" made a great modification on the systematic of Actinomycetes and formally set up the phylum of Actinobacteria, which encompasses 6 classes, 23 orders (include one order incertae sides), 53 families, 222 genera and about 3000 species. The taxonomic catalogue is Bacteria, phylum of Actinobacteria, under the phylum there are class, order, family, genera and species. "Bergey's Manual" collected a great deal of new taxa, which were published in IJSEM (International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology) by Chinese scientists. We need to indicate that due to its too rigorous, conservative writing purpose and long publication periods, "Bergey's Manual" fails to collect new research results using the molecular approaches of multilocus sequence analysis "MLSA", gene chip technology and genome technologies, which however will profoundly change the taxonomy of prokaryotes in the near future.
《伯杰氏系统细菌学手册》（以下简称《伯杰氏手册》）是多国分类学家所接受学术观点的汇总，具有科学性、统一性和实用性。2012年5月出版了分为两部分（A部分和B部分）的《伯杰氏手册》（放线菌专辑）。在迈克尔·古德费洛等人的指导和组织下，这部巨著于2012年5月顺利完成。《伯杰氏手册》对放线菌的分类体系进行了重大修订，正式确立了放线菌门，该门包含6个纲、23个目（包括一个地位未定的目）、53个科、222个属和约3000个种。分类目录为细菌界、放线菌门，门下有纲、目、科、属、种。《伯杰氏手册》收录了大量由中国科学家发表在《国际系统与进化微生物学杂志》（IJSEM）上的新分类单元。需要指出的是，由于其编写目的过于严谨、保守且出版周期长，《伯杰氏手册》未能收录采用多位点序列分析（MLSA）、基因芯片技术和基因组技术等分子方法所取得的新研究成果，然而这些方法在不久的将来将深刻改变原核生物的分类学。
