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NIEL, Cornelis Bernardus van

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The concept of a bacterium.

Arch. f. Mikrobiol., 42, 17-35, 1962.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Stanier, Niel. For much of the 20th centurty prokaryotes were regarded as a single group of organisms, classified on the basis of their biochemistry, morphology and metabolism. In this paper the authors established the division between prokaryotes and eukaryotes, defining prokaryotes as organisms lacking a cell nucleus.



Subjects: BACTERIOLOGY, BIOLOGY, MICROBIOLOGY