ISSN 2075-1729 www.mdpi.com/journal/life Peer-Review Record: Does a Barcoding Gap Exist in Prokaryotes?
It follows from the whole article that the authors accepted the names (and also concepts) of taxa (mostly genera) from older literature, without necessary criticism. There are included revised genera according to modern methods together with taxonomically very problematic groups. As examples is possible to mention that Aphanizomenon ovalisporum and Anabaena bergii are really very related taxa, but they were already re-classified in one special and separate genus Chrysosporum. On the other hand, the complex “Prochlorococcus/Synechococcus” is still very unclear and surely is distant from the typical genus Synechoccocus. etc.