UniEuk: Time to Speak a Common Language in Protistology!
UniEuk: Time to Speak a Common Language in Protistology!
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10.1111/jeu.12414
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2017-05
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de Vargas C
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Berney C;Ciuprina A;Bender S;Brodie J;Edgcomb V;Kim E;Rajan J;Parfrey LW;Adl S;Audic S;Bass D;Caron DA;Cochrane G;Czech L;Dunthorn M;Geisen S;Glöckner FO;Mahé F;Quast C;Kaye JZ;Simpson AGB;Stamatakis A;Del Campo J;Yilmaz P;de Vargas C
通用分类学框架是构建植物学、动物学、真菌学和细菌学及其大型研究社区的关键工具。动物、植物和真菌在过去的三个世纪里建立了相对坚实、稳定的形态分类学，而细菌在过去的三十年里一直在一个连贯的分子分类学框架下进行分类。相比之下，微生物真核生物没有这样的共同语言，即使环境“组学”调查表明，原生生物构成了我们星球生态系统的大部分有机体和遗传复杂性！随着当前真核Meta组学数据的泛滥，我们迫切需要建立一个通用的真核生物分类学，将原生生物组学时代与脆弱的、具有数百年历史的经典知识体系联系起来，这些经典知识将原生生物分类群与形态学、生理学和生态学信息有效地联系起来。UniEuk是一个开放、包容、基于社区和专家驱动的国际倡议，旨在为真核生物建立一个灵活、适应性强的通用分类框架。它结合了三个互补模块，EukRef，EukBank和EukMap，它们使用系统发育标记，环境元编码调查和专家知识来告知分类框架。UniEuk分类法直接在EMBL-EBI的欧洲核苷酸档案馆中实施，确保其作为真核生物参考分类法的广泛使用和长期保存。
Universal taxonomic frameworks have been critical tools to structure the fields of botany, zoology, mycology, and bacteriology as well as their large research communities. Animals, plants, and fungi have relatively solid, stable morpho‐taxonomies built over the last three centuries, while bacteria have been classified for the last three decades under a coherent molecular taxonomic framework. By contrast, no such common language exists for microbial eukaryotes, even though environmental ‘‐omics’ surveys suggest that protists make up most of the organismal and genetic complexity of our planet's ecosystems! With the current deluge of eukaryotic meta‐omics data, we urgently need to build up a universal eukaryotic taxonomy bridging the protist ‐omics age to the fragile, centuries‐old body of classical knowledge that has effectively linked protist taxa to morphological, physiological, and ecological information. UniEuk is an open, inclusive, community‐based and expert‐driven international initiative to build a flexible, adaptive universal taxonomic framework for eukaryotes. It unites three complementary modules, EukRef, EukBank, and EukMap, which use phylogenetic markers, environmental metabarcoding surveys, and expert knowledge to inform the taxonomic framework. The UniEuk taxonomy is directly implemented in the European Nucleotide Archive at EMBL‐EBI, ensuring its broad use and long‐term preservation as a reference taxonomy for eukaryotes.