Prokaryote Diversity

Diversity of Microbial Communities

“…Plasmids provide a means of establishing diversity within populations of the same species (Starr and Schmidt, 1981). The distribution of plasmids within a community is thus a measure of the diversity of the populations in that community.…”

“…Microbial populations indeed exhibit great heterogeneity or diversity in their morphological, physiological, and ultimately genetic characteristics. An extensive list of diversifying factors that act to establish differentiating characteristics between microbial species has been discussed by Starr and Schmidt (1981). Some examples of these diversifying features are listed in Table I.…”

Microbial diversity in soil: effect of releasing genetically engineered micro‐organisms

“…To date 3058 bacterial species (not including cyanobacteria) have been described. Although this number is already about 1000 species more than the number described ten years ago (Starr & Schmidt 1981), the actual number of bacterial species probably exceeds those that scientists have identified. For example, Torsvik etal.…”

Four great coccidioidomycologists: William Ophuls (1871–1933), Myrnie Gifford (1892–1966), Charles Edward Smith (1904–1967) and William A. Winn (1903–1967)

“…The reclassification as fungi of Histoplasma and Coccidioides [17--19, 57, 58], first called protozoa, which distressed this faith, might have attracted less attention if delayed until the recent upheaval in biologic taxonomy. Under the emerging scheme which puts the great cleavage between prokaryotes and eukaryotes, recognizing two prokaryote kingdoms, archae- bacteria and eubacteria, and four eukaryote kingdoms, protists, fungi, plants and animals, [3,15,44,54,63,90,92,97], some organisms are still hard to place. Dickson, perhaps unhappy over the retention of the protozooid title Coccidioides, chose to emphasize fungal character in dropping the disease name coccidioidal granuloma and replacing it with coccidioidomycosis, which may be translated as the fungal infection due to the thing which looks like the Coccidia.…”