Naming Conventions by Jay Hardy CLS(ASCP), SM(NRM) Nomenclature of M - PDF document

Naming Conventions by Jay Hardy CLS(ASCP), SM(NRM) Nomenclature of Microorganisms The Origin of Names The Greek philosopher Aristotle attempteeither Plant or Animal. He grouped animals into Land Dwellers, Water system made sense to Aristotle, we would have a difficult time in grouping elephants and earthworms, whales and Subsequent scientists later tried to classify living creatures by means of locomotion, grouping butterflies This system of classification was obviously flawed as well. The efforts to classify living thCarl Linnaeusnaming system in the middle same one we use today. He attempted to name all known plants, animals, and minerals using Latin and Greek names. One of his meaning Today, microorganism names originate from four different sources: Proteus vulgarise entrance to the duodenum) Erlichia (Paul Erlich), Nessieria (Albert Neisser),Lister),), Yersinia 3. Geographic placesPasturella tularensisBlastomyces brasiliensisspp. (Brown University, Providence, RI) 4. Organizations (American Legion), (Air Force Institute of (Centers for Disease Control), (American system has six: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Archaea, Bacteria) (aka, generic name)(aka, specific name, specific epithet) For example, the bacteria used in yogurt Firmicutes Family: - Binary names (invented by neric name and a species Escherichia coli), must be used for all microorganisms. Names of catelevel may be used alone, but species and subspecies names (species names) may not. In other words…never use a species name alone. Known as the “Father of Modern Taxonomy” Carl Linnaeus was the first to consistanly name plants and animals using the binomial system of Latin names for genus and species. name is never capitalized, e.g. When to Italicize - Names of all taxa (kingdoms, phyla, classes, orders, families, genera, designations and numbers are not. If, then the binary name would be non-italic (Roman typeface) or underlined (e.g. gram negative bacillus). - A specific epithet must be preceded by a generic name, written the first time it is used in a name should be abbreviated to Salmonella, Shigella, Serr - Vernacular (common) names should be in lowercase roman type, non- referring to the actual genus name (or above) always capitalize and italicize. , genus, species, and subspecies names should be rendered in standard form: S. enterica thereafter; S. enterica thereafter. Names of serovars should be in roman type with the first letter capitalized: Typhimurium. After the first use, the serovar may also be given without a species name: serovar Typhimurium. ClostridiumClostridium meaning 'for example' (it comes from the Latin, exempli gratia) meaning 'that is' (from the Latin id est). Note that 'i.e.' specifiwhereas 'e.g.' gives examples. meaning 'and so forth' (from the Latin et cetera) [Some people, wrongly, write ect.] meaning 'and others' (from the Latin et alreferences. Plural of medium is media (never say “this culture media”) enterococci, etc) Plural of bacillus is bacilli Plural of bacterium is bacteria crobiology” as a guideline. List the me of article, name of journal, volume (in bold), then pages. For example: Agouridas, C., A. Bonnefoy, and J. F. Chantot.iratory pathogens. Antimicrob. the author's last name. n with the main word of thle of books or magazines. 157, not E. coli 0 When referring to filamentous fungi….Is it MOLD or MOULD? Hint: it depends on which side of - height, summit, tip aer-, aero- air, atmosphere - white ambi-ampullavesselant-, anti-anth-, antho-archaeo-, archeo- ancient arthr- , arthro- joint rod-shaped at the bottom germ, embryo, bud, cell with nucleus short arm brief, short (time) short cheek, mouth, cavity camp-cap-, -cip-, capt-, -cept-capit-, -cipit-- headrelating to the cervix chrom-- branch - bluederma falc-felis- cat flav-fort- milk stomach )- earth - smooth, hairlesshaem(o)- haema-, hema hom(o)- same homeo- like - water inter- among, between intra- within kil(o)- milk lat(i)-leuc(o)-, leuk(o)-lip(o)-lith(o)-lutea- macr-macromamm-medi-, -midi- middle meg-melan-mening- membrane mes- middlemicr(o)- small mill-min- less, smaller mir- wonder, amazement change slime - newnecr(o)-- nerve black eye toothoma-operculum- thick child ancient, oldpan-, pam- almost deficiency peptic, stomach - dark mould full full many prim- first false psil(o)-pulmon- beam, spoke ram-retro-rhiza-- wisesarc(o)- look at, examine, view, shield soma-spheroid breathe squam-stom(a)-strept-syn-, sy-, syl-, sym- swift terr-terti- empty verm- wormverrucosus- greenvitr- - joined