Romance of the three domains:how cladistics transformed the classifi cation of cellular organisms

作     者：Chi-Chun Ho Susanna K.P.Lau Patrick C.Y.Woo 

作者机构：Department of MicrobiologyThe University of Hong KongHong KongChina State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious DiseasesThe University of Hong KongHong KongChina Research Centre of Infection and ImmunologyThe University of Hong KongHong KongChina Carol Yu Centre of InfectionThe University of Hong KongHong KongChina 

出 版 物：《Protein & Cell》 (蛋白质与细胞（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2013年第4卷第9期

页      面：664-676页

核心收录：

学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 0831[工学-生物医学工程（可授工学、理学、医学学位）] 1007[医学-药学(可授医学、理学学位)] 0502[文学-外国语言文学] 050201[文学-英语语言文学] 05[文学] 1002[医学-临床医学] 0703[理学-化学] 0836[工学-生物工程] 

基　　金：supported by the HKSAR Health and Medical Research Fund Research Grants Council Grant and Strategic Research Theme Fund The University of Hong Kong and the Croucher Foundation 

主　　题：cladistics phenetics phylogeny classifi ca-tion evolution 

摘      要：Cladistics is a biological philosophy that uses genealogi-cal relationship among species and an inferred sequence of divergence as the basis of classifi *** review critically surveys the chronological development of bio-logical classification from Aristotle through our post-genomic era with a central focus on *** 1957,Julian Huxley coined cladogenesis to denote splitting from *** 1960,the English translation of Willi Hennig’s 1950 work,Systematic Phylogenetics,was published,which received strong opposition from phenet-icists,such as numerical taxonomists Peter Sneath and Robert Sokal,and evolutionary taxonomist,Ernst Mayr,and sparked acrimonious debates in *** 1977-1990,Carl Woese pioneered in using small subunit rRNA gene sequences to delimitate the three domains of cellu-lar life and established major prokaryotic *** has since dominated *** being compatible with modern microbiological observations,*** with unusual phenotypes,restricted expression of charac-teristics and occasionally being uncultivable,increasing recognition of pervasiveness and abundance of horizon-tal gene transfer has challenged relevance and validity of *** mosaic nature of eukaryotic and prokary-otic genomes was also gradually *** the mid-2000s,high-throughput and whole-genome sequencing became routine and complex geneologies of organisms have led to the proposal of a reticulated web of *** genomics only indirectly leads to understanding of func-tional adaptations to ecological niches,computational modeling of entire organisms is underway and the gap between genomics and phenetics may soon be *** are not expected to settle as taxonomic classifi cations shall remain subjective to serve the human scientist,not the classifi ed.