I want to draw your attention to one of my recent articles [1] in the well known German BIOspektrum journal. The article was published in the category “Karriere, Köpfe & Konzepte” (i.e., “careers, heads and concepts”) and summarizes our recent work on the E. coli type strain [2] as well as the suite of modern, computer-assisted taxonomic tools we applied to shed further light on the taxonomy of this important group. The article also covers our new method for a genome sequence-based subspecies delineation (of all bacterial and archaeal strains!) as published in the original article [2].
References:
[1] http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12268-015-0600-0
[2] http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1944-3277-9-2