Federhen Scott
National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
Nucleic Acids Res. 2015 Jan;43(Database issue):D1086-98. doi: 10.1093/nar/gku1127. Epub 2014 Nov 14.
Type material is the taxonomic device that ties formal names to the physical specimens that serve as exemplars for the species. For the prokaryotes these are strains submitted to the culture collections; for the eukaryotes they are specimens submitted to museums or herbaria. The NCBI Taxonomy Database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/taxonomy) now includes annotation of type material that we use to flag sequences from type in GenBank and in Genomes. This has important implications for many NCBI resources, some of which are outlined below.
模式标本是一种分类学工具,它将正式名称与作为物种典范的物理标本联系起来。对于原核生物来说,这些是提交给培养物保藏中心的菌株;对于真核生物来说,它们是提交给博物馆或植物标本馆的标本。NCBI分类数据库(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/taxonomy)现在包括模式标本的注释,我们用它来标记GenBank和基因组中来自模式的序列。这对许多NCBI资源有重要影响,其中一些如下所述。