Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.4831
Name
 Firrao et al. 2004
Taxonomic Rank
genus
Methodology
Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]
Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)
Parent
Taxon RecordName Record
Brown et al. 2010
Members
Marcone et al. 2004
Lee et al. 2006
Lee et al. 2004
(sic) Zreik et al. 1995
(sic) White et al. 1998
Davis et al. 1997
(sic) Win et al. 2013
Montano et al. 2001
Arocha et al. 2005
Jung et al. 2002
Šafárová et al. 2016
Bertaccini et al. 2022
Martini et al. 2012
Lee et al. 2011
Marcone et al. 2004
Jones et al. 2021
Valiunas et al. 2006
Griffiths et al. 1999
Arocha et al. 2005
Davis et al. 2016
Sawayanagi et al. 1999
Davis et al. 2017
Arocha et al. 2007
Nejat et al. 2013
Seemüller and Schneider 2004
Fernández et al. 2016
Miyazaki et al. 2018
Al-Saady et al. 2008
Jung et al. 2003
Bertaccini et al. 2022
Harrison et al. 2014
Verdin et al. 2003
Schneider et al. 2005
Davis et al. 2013
Seemüller and Schneider 2004
Seemüller and Schneider 2004
Marcone et al. 2004
Malembic-Maher et al. 2011
Kirdat et al. 2021
Quaglino et al. 2013
Marcone et al. 2004
Rodrigues Jardim et al. 2021
(sic) Davis et al. 2012
Zhao et al. 2009
Hiruki and Wang 2004
Zhao et al. 2021
Lee et al. 2004
Marzorati et al. 2006
Naderali et al. 2017
Jung et al. 2003
Type Status
Taxonomy
The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.
  Woese et al. 1990
  (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
  corrig. Murray 2021
  Edward and Freundt 1967 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2019
  Freundt et al. 1984
  Brown et al. 2010
  Firrao et al. 2004

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 Phytoplasma Firrao et al. 2004. Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4831.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on April 29, 2022.

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