Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
Department of Plant Biology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA; Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
Trends Ecol Evol. 2017 Aug;32(8):552-555. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2017.05.002. Epub 2017 Jun 9.
Much of the undescribed biodiversity on Earth is microbial, often in mutualistic or pathogenic associations. Physically associated and coevolving life forms comprise a symbiome. We propose that systematics research can accelerate progress in science by introducing a new framework for phylogenetic analysis of symbiomes, here termed SYMPHY (symbiome phylogenetics).
地球上大部分未被描述的生物多样性是微生物，通常存在于互利共生或致病的关系中。物理上相关和共同进化的生命形式构成了一个共生体。我们提出，系统学研究可以通过引入一个新的共生体系统发育分析框架（这里称为 SYMPHY）来加速科学的进展。
