López Romalde, JesúsBalboa Méndez, SabelaVentosa Ucero, Antonio2020-07-162020-07-162019López Romalde, J., Balboa Méndez, S. y Ventosa Ucero, A. (2019). Editorial: Microbial taxonomy, phylogeny and biodiversity. Front. Microbiol., vol. 10:1324.doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.0132410.3389/fmicb.2019.01324http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23140The great diversity of microbial life is the remaining majorreservoir of unknown biologicaldiversity on Earth. To understand this vast, but largely unperceived diversity with its untappedgenetic, enzymatic and industrial potential, microbial systematics is undergoing a revolutionarychange in its approach to describe novel taxa based on genomic/envirogenomic information(Rosselló-Móra and Whitman, 2019)engCopyright © 2019 Romalde, Balboa and Ventosa. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these termshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Microbial systematicTaxonomyPhylogenyDiversityGenomicsjournal article1664-302Xopen access