| Qualifier | type_material |
| Definition | indicates that the organism from which this sequence was obtained is a nomenclatural type of the species (or subspecies) corresponding with the /organism identified in the sequence entry |
| Value Format | "<type-of-type> of <organism name>" where type-of-type is one of the following: type strain, neotype strain, holotype, paratype, neotype, allotype, hapanotype, syntype, lectotype, paralectotype, isotype, epitype, isosyntype, ex-type, reference strain, type material; |
| Example | /type_material="type strain of Escherichia coli" /type_material="holotype of Cercopitheus lomamiensis" /type_material="paratype of Cercopitheus lomamiensis" |
| Comment | <type-of-type> is taken from the INSDC controlled vocabularly for /type_material at: http://www.insdc.org/controlled-vocabulary-typematerial-qualifer <organism name> should be listed as the scientific name (or as a synonym) at the species (or subspecies) node in the taxonomy database. INSDC will automatically populate this qualifier from the NCBI taxonomy database to flag sequences of form type in the INSDC databases (ENA/GenBank/DDBJ). |