title: Focus: Synergistetes.
authors.affiliation: DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA 94598, USA. phugenholtz@lbl.gov
authors.forename: Philip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hugenholtz
authors.forename: Sean D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Hooper
authors.forename: Nikos C
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Kyrpides
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D006089:Gram-Negative Anaerobic Bacteria / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics; D010802:Phylogeny