RESULTS OF A DISCUSSION ABOUT TECHNICAL PROBLEMS IN TAXONOMIC RESEARCH ON FLAVOBACTERIA AND CYTOPHAGA-LIKE BACTERIA

Abstract

The participants of the symposium felt, that an exchange of results and ideas between the two groups of investigators working with flavobacteria on the one side, and with Cytophaga-like bacteria on the other, could potentially be very useful and stimulating for both sides, particularly as the borders between some of these bacteria tend to vanish. Closer contacts within each group of microbiologists, and between the two,would be highly desirable. To promote such contacts it was proposed, a) to start a Newsletter on Flavobacteria and Cytophaga-Like Bacteria, and b) to repeat meetings of the kind just concluded from time to time. Dr. 0.B. Weeks from Las Cruces, New Mexico, kindly took over responsibility for compiling and distributing the Newsletter