Microbial Life Database

Introduction

The Microbial Life Database (MLD) is a project under continuos development to visualize the ecological, physiological and morphological diversity of microbial life. A database is being constructed including data for nearly 600 well-known prokaryote genera mostly described in Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology and published by the Bergey's Trust. Correction and additions come from many other sources. The database is divided by genera but we are working on a version by species. This is the current database v02 in Google Spreadsheets format. Below is a bubble chart of the number of species included in each of the microbial groups. You can click the graph to go to an interactive version with more details. If you want to contribute to this database please send an email to Prof. Abel Mendez.

References

• • Méndez, A. (2001). Planetary Habitable Zones: The Spatial Distribution of Life on Planetary Bodies on First Steps in the Origin of Life in the Universe, J. Chela-Flores, T. Owen, and F. Raulin (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 211-214.

  • Méndez, A. (1999). Planetary Habitable Zones on Earth and Mars on Astrobiology on Origins from the Big-Bang to Civilization, J. Chela-Flores, G. A. Lemarchand, and J. Oró(eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 303-306.

Resources

• ATCC - American Type Culture Collection

• WDCM - World Data Centre for Microorganisms

• List of Prokaryotic Names with Standing in Nomenclature - list of validly published names, including higher taxa and Candidatus organisms

• Bacterial Nomenclature up-to-date - An annotated list of validly published bacterial names

• StrainInfo.net - Navigate microbial space with this bioportal on cultured micro-organisms

• RDP - Ribosomal Database Project

• NCBI - National Center for Biotechnology Information

• ITIS - Integrated Taxonomic Information System

• Tree of Life - A distributed Internet project containing information about phylogeny and biodiversity