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Nature 442, 868 (24 August 2006) | doi:10.1038/442868c; Published online 23 August 2006

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A positive definition of prokaryotes

William Martin1 & Eugene V. Koonin2

  1. Institute of Botany, University of Düsseldorf, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
  2. National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA

In his Concepts essay, Norman R. Pace argues that the concept of prokaryotes is misleading and proposes that the word 'prokaryote' be banned from the scientific literature1.

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