Coprothermobacterota Pavan et al. 2018
General information
Name
Coprothermobacterota
Effective publication
2018
Lineage
Root.
Bacteria.
Coprothermobacterota
Nomenclature type
Coprothermobacterales
Etymology
N.L. masc. n. <i>Coprothermobacter</i> type genus of the type class of the phylum; L. suff. -<i>ota</i> ending to denote phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n. <i>Coprothermobacterota</i> the phylum of the class <i>Coprothermobacteria</i>.
Description and emendation
Original Description
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The description is the same as for the family Coprothermobacteraceae. The phylum constitutes one of the earliest diverging lineages of the bacterial phylogenetic tree as supported by analysis of 16S rRNA gene and whole genome sequences.
Subdivision(s)
References
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Pavan, M.E., Pavan, E.E., Glaeser, S.P., Etchebehere, C., Kampfer, P., Pettinari, M.J., and Lopez, N.I. Proposal for a new classification of a deep branching bacterial phylogenetic lineage: transfer of Coprothermobacter proteolyticus and Coprothermobacter platensis to Coprothermobacteraceae fam. nov., within Coprothermobacterales ord. nov., Coprothermobacteria classis nov. and Coprothermobacterota phyl. nov. and emended description of the family Thermodesulfobiaceae. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol.(2018) 68:1627-1632.[DOI:10.1099/ijsem.0.002720]
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