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ICSP response to ‘Regulating access can restrict participation in reporting new species and taxa’

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To the Editor — The members of the Executive Board of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes (ICSP, https://www.the-icsp.org) appreciate the issues raised in the Correspondence ‘Regulating access can restrict participation in reporting new species and taxa’, published in your December 2021 issue1.

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The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and are presented on behalf of the Executive Board of the ICSP (https://www.the-icsp.org/executive-board).

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  1. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Edmond J. Safra Campus, Jerusalem, Israel

    Aharon Oren

  2. Leibniz Institute DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany

    Markus Göker & Richard L. Hahnke

  3. Department of Infectious Disease, Institute for Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Edward R. B. Moore

  4. Northumbria University, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

    Iain C. Sutcliffe

  5. Departamento de Microbiología y Ecología, Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain

    David R. Arahal

  6. Novozymes, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Preben Nielsen

  7. Lincoln University, Lincoln, New Zealand

    Stephen L. W. On

  8. Marine Microbiology Group, Institut Mediterrani d’Estudis Avançats (CSIC-UIB), Illes Balears, Spain

    Ramon Rosselló-Móra

  9. National Centre for Cell Science, Pune, India

    Yogesh Shouche

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  • David R. Arahal
  • , Markus Göker
  • , Richard L. Hahnke
  • , Edward R. B. Moore
  • , Preben Nielsen
  • , Stephen L. W. On
  • , Aharon Oren
  • , Ramon Rosselló-Móra
  • , Yogesh Shouche
  •  & Iain C. Sutcliffe

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Oren, A., Göker, M., Hahnke, R.L. et al. ICSP response to ‘Regulating access can restrict participation in reporting new species and taxa’. Nat Microbiol 7, 1711–1712 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-022-01167-z

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