1. Taxonomy of Prokaryotes - Introduction FA Rainey and A Oren
2. How to Write a Taxonomic Paper FA Rainey
3. Phenotypic and Physiological Characterization Methods NR Krieg and PJ Padgett
4. Microscopy M Rohde
5. Peptidoglycan Structure P Schumann
6. Cell Wall Teichoic Acids in the Taxonomy and Characterization of Gram-Positive Bacteria NV Potekhina, GM Streshinskaya, EM Tul???skaya and AS Shashkov
7. The Identification of Polar Lipids in Prokaryotes MS da Costa, L Albuquerque, MF Nobre and R Wait
8. The Identification of Fatty Acids in Bacteria MS da Costa, L Albuquerque, MF Nobre and R Wait
9. The Extraction and Identification of Respiratory Lipoquinones of Prokaryotes and their Use in Taxonomy MS da Costa, L Albuquerque, MF Nobre and R Wait
10. Detection and Characterization of Mycolic Acids and their Use in Taxonomy and Classification AAF Yassin
11. Polyamines H-J Busse
12. Characterization of Pigments of Prokaryotes A Oren
13. Characterization of Prokaryotes Using MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry B Dridi and M Drancourt
14. Determination of the G+C Content of Prokaryotes NM Mesbah, WB Whitman and M Mesbah
15. DNA-DNA hybridization R Rossell??-M??ra, M Urdiain and A L??pez-L??pez
16. The Use of rRNA Gene Sequence Data in the Classification and Identification of Prokaryotes W Ludwig, FO Gl??ckner and P Yilmaz
17. Mutilocus Sequence Determination and Analysis P De Vos
18. Whole Genome Sequence Comparisons in Taxonomy R Borriss, C Rueckert, J Blom, O Bezuidt, O Reva and H-P Klenk
19. How to Name New Genera and Species of Prokaryotes? A Oren