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To purchase or authenticate to the full-text of this article, please visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-695X.2008.00516.x Byline: Richard S. Stephens (1), Garry Myers (2), Mark Eppinger (2), Patrik M. Bavoil (3) Keywords: Chlamydia; taxonomy; genomes Abstract: Abstract Members of Chlamydiaceae have been extensively characterized by complete genome sequencing. This information provides new understanding concerning their natural evolutionary history. Comparative genome analysis is consistent with the conclusion that host-divergent strains of Chlamydiae are closely related biologically and ecologically. The previous taxonomic separation of the genus based on ribosomal sequences is neither consistent with the natural history of the organism revealed by genome comparisons, nor widely used by the Chlamydia research community 8 years after its introduction; thus, it is proposed to reunite the Chlamydiaceae into a single genus, Chlamydia. Author Affiliation: (1)Program in Infectious Diseases, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA (2)Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA (3)Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA Article History: Received 26 September 2008; revised 17 November 2008; accepted 26 November 2008.First published online 5 January 2009. Article note: Correspondence: Richard S. Stephens, 16 Barker Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. Tel.: +1 510 642 5940; fax: +1 510 643 1537; e-mail: rss@berkeley.edu