Talk:Proteobacteria

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[edit] Classification

1. I know that the phylum of proteobacteria is divided into 5 classes alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon. What is the basis of dividing them into this 5 groups?

-->> It is based on 16S rDNA differences. Onco p53 04:36, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)

2. You should probably note that the betaproteobacteria are really a subdivision of the gammaproteobacteria

Noted.

[edit] Completing orders and families

I am currently going through, starting with the alpha proteobacteria, to complete the orders and families and to have full tax boxes for them. I won't go down to species level yet. My references will be:


uBio microscope is pretty handy, too. It would be nice if we could give :some information beyond membership and phylogenetic position, but that seems difficult for many :groups. Do you know of any orders or families that have unique characteristics, like unusual :metabolic processes or forms? I'd like to expand on such groups, but beyond the photosynthetic :families and myxobacteria, they're hard to identify. Josh
I agree, I'll have a look for general characters, but with the move from a phenetic to phylogenetic classification system, such things can be tricky. Some are easy like Methylobacterium. Onco p53 02:46, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Basically who cares207.170.226.130 22:12, 8 March 2006 (UTC)