Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.0

Name

Universal Root Woese et al. 1990

Taxonomic Rank

root

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record

Members

domain	Archaea Woese et al. 1990
domain	Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990

Type Status

Names of taxa above the rank of class or below the rank of subspecies are not covered by the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes and therefore cannot serve as nomenclatural types.

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this root within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.0.

Source File

10.1601/tx.0.xml


This information was last reviewed on January 28, 2017.

References

Woese CR, Kandler O, Wheelis ML. Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1990; 87:4576-4579. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.87.12.4576 [PubMed].