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58 4. MIMARKS<br />

troduc<strong>in</strong>g additional checklists such as MIMARKS, and also allows<br />

annotation of sample data us<strong>in</strong>g environmental packages. A schematic<br />

overview of MIxS along with the MIxS environmental packages is<br />

shown <strong>in</strong> Figure 4.1.<br />

Figure 4.1: Schematic overview about the GSC MIxS standard (brown), <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g comb<strong>in</strong>ation<br />

with specific environmental packages (blue). Shared descriptors apply to all MIxS checklists,<br />

however, each checklist has its own specific descriptors as well. Environmental packages can be<br />

applied to any of the checklists. EU, eukarya; BA, bacteria/archaea; PL, plasmid; VI, virus;<br />

ORG, organelle.<br />

4.3 Development of MIMARKS and the environmental<br />

packages<br />

Over the past three decades, the 16S rRNA, 18S rRNA and <strong>in</strong>ternal<br />

transcribed spacer gene sequences (ITS) from Bacteria, Archaea and<br />

<strong>microbial</strong> Eukaryotes have provided deep <strong>in</strong>sights <strong>in</strong>to the topology of<br />

the tree of life [Ludwig and Schleifer, 2005, Ludwig et al., 1998] and<br />

the composition of communities of organisms that live <strong>in</strong> diverse environments,<br />

rang<strong>in</strong>g from deep sea hydrothermal vents to ice sheets

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