Venter, Stephanus N.


Publications
6

Genomic delineation and description of species and within-species lineages in the genus Pantoea

Citation
Crosby et al. (2023). Frontiers in Microbiology 14
Names
Pantoea alvi Pantoea multigeneris Pantoea floridensis Pantoea haifensis Pantoea varia Pantoea rara Pantoea gossypiicola Pantoea bituminis Pantoea deserta Pantoea formicae Pantoea soli Pantoea astica Pantoea borealis Pantoea superficialis Pantoea symbiotica Pantoea communis
Abstract
As the name of the genus Pantoea (“of all sorts and sources”) suggests, this genus includes bacteria with a wide range of provenances, including plants, animals, soils, components of the water cycle, and humans. Some members of the genus are pathogenic to plants, and some are suspected to be opportunistic human pathogens; while others are used as microbial pesticides or show promise in biotechnological applications. During its taxonomic history, the genus and its species have seen many revisions

SeqCode: a nomenclatural code for prokaryotes described from sequence data

Citation
Hedlund et al. (2022). Nature Microbiology
Names
Kryptonium mobile Kryptoniaceae Kryptoniia Kryptoniales
Abstract
AbstractMost prokaryotes are not available as pure cultures and therefore ineligible for naming under the rules and recommendations of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (ICNP). Here we summarize the development of the SeqCode, a code of nomenclature under which genome sequences serve as nomenclatural types. This code enables valid publication of names of prokaryotes based upon isolate genome, metagenome-assembled genome or single-amplified genome sequences. Otherwise, it is s

All ANIs are not created equal: implications for prokaryotic species boundaries and integration of ANIs into polyphasic taxonomy

Citation
Palmer et al. (2020). International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 (4)
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Abstract
In prokaryotic taxonomy, a set of criteria is commonly used to delineate species. These criteria are generally based on cohesion at the phylogenetic, phenotypic and genomic levels. One such criterion shown to have promise in the genomic era is average nucleotide identity (ANI), which provides an average measure of similarity across homologous regions shared by a pair of genomes. However, despite the popularity and relative ease of using this metric, ANI has undergone numerous refinements, with v