Preparing a revision of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes

Aharon Oren; David R Arahal; Ramon Rosselló-Móra; Iain C Sutcliffe; Edward R B Moore

doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.004598

Preparing a revision of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes

Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2021 Jan;71(1). doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004598. Epub 2020 Dec 10.

Authors

Aharon Oren¹, David R Arahal², Ramon Rosselló-Móra³, Iain C Sutcliffe⁴, Edward R B Moore⁵

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Edmond J. Safra Campus, 9190401 Jerusalem, Israel.
² Departamento de Microbiología y Ecología, Edificio de Investigación, Campus de Burjassot, Universidad de Valencia, 46100 Burjassot (Valencia), Spain.
³ Grup de Microbiologia Marina, IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), C/Miquel Marques 21, 07190 Esporles, Illes Balears, Spain.
⁴ Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST, UK.
⁵ Department of Infectious Disease, Institute for Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, P.O. Box 7193, SE-402 34 Göteborg, Sweden.

PMID: 33300858
DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004598

Abstract

The Editorial Board of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes here explains the proposed procedure towards the production of the next revision of the Prokaryotic Code, to include public discussion of a draft version, to be prepared by the editors, followed by balloting of the members of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes.

Keywords: ICNP; ICSP; the Prokaryotic Code.