Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology - Organization

Organization

The change in volume set to "Systematic Bacteriology" came in a new contract in 1980, whereupon the new style included "relationships between organisms" and had "expanded scope" overall. This new style was picked up for a four volume set that first began publishing in 1984. The information in the volumes were separated as follows:

Volume 1 included information on all types of Gram-negative bacteria that were considered to have "medical and industrial importance." Volume 2 included information on all types of Gram-positive bacteria. Volume 3 deals with all of the remaining, slightly different Gram-negative bacteria, along with the archaea. Volume 4 has information on filamentous actinomycetes and other, similar bacteria.

The current volumes differ drastically from previous volumes in that many higher taxa are not defined in terms of phenotype, but solely on 16S phylogeny, as is the case of the classes within Proteobacteria.

The current grouping is as follows:

  • Volume 1 (2001): The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria
  • Volume 2 (2005): The Proteobacteria—divided into three books:
    • 2A: Introductory essays
    • 2B: The Gammaproteobacteria
    • 2C: Other classes of Proteobacteria
  • Volume 3 (2009): The Firmicutes
  • Volume 4 (2011): The Bacteroidetes, Spirochaetes, Tenericutes (Mollicutes), Acidobacteria, Fibrobacteres, Fusobacteria, Dictyoglomi, Gemmatimonadetes, Lentisphaerae, Verrucomicrobia, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes
  • Volume 5 (in two parts) (2012): The Actinobacteria

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