Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.31134

Name

Endomicrobium Zheng et al. 2018

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Endomicrobiaceae Zheng et al. 2018

Members

species	Endomicrobium proavitum Zheng et al. 2018
species	Endomicrobium pyrsonymphae Stingl et al. 2005
species	Endomicrobium trichonymphae Stingl et al. 2005

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Elusimicrobiota corrig. Geissinger et al. 2021
class Endomicrobia Zheng et al. 2018
order Endomicrobiales Zheng et al. 2018
family Endomicrobiaceae Zheng et al. 2018
genus Endomicrobium Zheng et al. 2018

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the genus Endomicrobium Zheng et al. 2018. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.31134.

Source File

10.1601/tx.31134.xml


This information was last reviewed on September 24, 2018.

References

Stingl U, Radek R, Yang H, Brune A. "Endomicrobia": cytoplasmic symbionts of termite gut protozoa form a separate phylum of prokaryotes. Appl Environ Microbiol 2005; 71:1473-1479. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.71.3.1473-1479.2005 [PubMed].
Zheng H, Dietrich C, Radek R, Brune A. Endomicrobium proavitum, the first isolate of Endomicrobia class. nov. (phylum Elusimicrobia)--an ultramicrobacterium with an unusual cell cycle that fixes nitrogen with a Group IV nitrogenase. EMIR 2016; 18:191-204. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.12960 [PubMed].