Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.34661

Name

Incertae sedis 507 Sousa et al. 2016

Taxonomic Rank

family

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
order	Incertae sedis 506 Sousa et al. 2016

Members

genus	Lokiarchaeon (sic) Spang et al. 2015

Type Status

Taxonomy

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


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Archaea Woese et al. 1990
phylum Lokiarchaeota Spang et al. 2015
class Incertae sedis 505 Sousa et al. 2016
order Incertae sedis 506 Sousa et al. 2016
family Incertae sedis 507 Sousa et al. 2016

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 family Incertae sedis 507 Sousa et al. 2016. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.34661.

Source File

10.1601/tx.34661.xml


This information was last reviewed on June 17, 2019.

References

Sousa FL, Neukirchen S, Allen JF, Lane N, Martin WF. Lokiarchaeon is hydrogen dependent. Nat Microbiol 2016; 1:16034-16034. https://doi.org/10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.34 [PubMed].
Spang A, Saw JH, Jørgensen SL, Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka K, Martijn J, Lind AE, van Eijk R, Schleper C, Guy L, Ettema TJG. Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Nature 2015; 521:173-179. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14447 [PubMed].