An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

WOESE, Carl Richard

2 entries
  • 12300

Phylogenetic structure of the prokaryotic domain: The primary kingdoms.

Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA), 74, 5088-5090, 1977.

(Order of authorship in the original publication: Woese, Fox.) Woese and Fox discovered a "third kingdom" in microbial life that they called "archaebacteria" (Archaea) as distinct from bacteria and eukaryotes. In their original classification archaebacteria were classified as bacteria.

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

Available from pnas.org at this link.



Subjects: BIOLOGY › TAXONOMY, BIOLOGY › TAXONOMY › Classification of Cellular Life, MICROBIOLOGY
  • 12301

Towards a natural system of organisms: Proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya.

Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA), 87, 4576-4579, 1990.

(Order of authorship in the original publication: Woese, Kandler, Wheelis.) Introduction of the three-domain biological classification system that divides cellular life into three forms or domains: Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya.  Archaea and bacteria are prokaryotic microorganisms, or single-celled organisms, the cells of which have no nucleus. The  Eukarya domain includes all life that has a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles, and multicellular organisms

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

Digital facsimile from pnas.org at this link.



Subjects: BIOLOGY › TAXONOMY › Classification of Cellular Life, MICROBIOLOGY