The concern the reviewer mentions here was also one of our main conclusions for the article. Apparently we did not formulate it well enough. It has thus been reformulated to: “However an accurate taxonomy can never be achieved by the use of a barcoding method only, since it is based on nucleotide substitutions of a single gene. Accurate classification always requires an integrative taxonomy effort R2 including characteristics from ecology, morphology and physiology, as already previously suggested for prokaryotes [9,28,29,45], and as it is becoming common also for animal taxonomy (e.g., [53,54]).” Moreover, it is necessary to mention the following aspects of this manuscript: (1)
Round 1: and Author Response The authors tested novel approach to identification of species in cyanobacteria based on 16S rRNA based on identification of barcoding gaps previously used in animals.