SILVA database issue

Microbial taxonomy is always in flux and various databases have trouble maintaining and curating this information.

New taxonomic organizations have been happening frequently these days. Take a look at this example from 2011: Parasutterella secunda sp. nov., isolated from human faeces and proposal of Sutterellaceae fam. nov. in the order Burkholderiales.

You can read more about taxonomy curation issues here:

-Mike

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