Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.34927

Name

Verstraetearchaeota Vanwonterghem et al. 2016

Taxonomic Rank

phylum

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
domain	Archaea Woese et al. 1990

Members

class	Incertae sedis 565 Berghuis et al. 2019
class	Incertae sedis 566 Berghuis et al. 2019
class	Methanomethylicia corrig. Vanwonterghem et al. 2016

Type Status

Names of taxa above the rank of class or below the rank of subspecies are not covered by the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes and therefore cannot serve as nomenclatural types.

Taxonomy

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


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Archaea Woese et al. 1990
phylum Verstraetearchaeota Vanwonterghem 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 phylum Verstraetearchaeota Vanwonterghem et al. 2016. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.34927.

Source File

10.1601/tx.34927.xml


This information was last reviewed on September 6, 2019.

References

Vanwonterghem I, Evans PN, Parks DH, Jensen PD, Woodcroft BJ, Hugenholtz P, Tyson GW. Methylotrophic methanogenesis discovered in the archaeal phylum Verstraetearchaeota. Nat Microbiol 2016; 1:16170-16170. https://doi.org/10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.170 [PubMed].
Berghuis BA, Yu FB, Schulz F, Blainey PC, Woyke T, Quake SR. Hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis in archaeal phylum Verstraetearchaeota reveals the shared ancestry of all methanogens. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2019; 116:5037-5044. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1815631116 [PubMed].