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Amphibacillus

Amphibacillus is a Gram-positive, spore-forming, rod-shaped and facultatively anaerobic genus of bacteria from the family of Bacillaceae. Amphibacillus have a low GC-content.

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Amphibacillus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Bacillati
Phylum: Bacillota
Class: Bacilli
Order: Bacillales
Family: Bacillaceae
Genus: Amphibacillus
Heyndrickx et al. 19981
Species
  • A. cookii
  • "A. diazotrophicus"
  • "A. haojiensis"
  • A. iburiensis
  • A. indicireducens
  • A. jilinensis
  • A. marinus
  • A. sediminis
  • A. tropicus
  • A. xylanus

Amphibacillus is a Gram-positive, spore-forming, rod-shaped and facultatively anaerobic genus of bacteria from the family of Bacillaceae.1234 Amphibacillus have a low GC-content.4

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)1 and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).5

16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024678 120 marker proteins based GTDB 09-RS22091011
Amphibacillus

A. xylanus Niimura et al. 1990

A. iburiensis Hirota, Aino & Yumoto 2013

A. indicireducens Hirota et al. 2013

A. tropicus Zhilina et al. 2002

A. sediminis An et al. 2007

A. marinus Ren et al. 2013

A. cookii Pugin et al. 2012

A. jilinensis Wu et al. 2010

Amphibacillus

A. sediminis

A. xylanus

A. marinus

A. cookii

A. jilinensis

See also

See also

References

References

  1. A.C. Parte; et al. "Amphibacillus". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved 2025-02-28.
  2. John G. Holt (1994). Bergey's manual of determinative bacteriology (9. ed.). Baltimore, Md. [u.a.]: Williams & Wilkins. ISBN 0-683-00603-7.
  3. https://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/29331 UniProt
  4. Arai, T; Yanahashi, S; Sato, J; Sato, T; Ishikawa, M; Koizumi, Y; Kawasaki, S; Niimura, Y; Nakagawa, J (April 2009). "Taxonomical and physiological comparisons of the three species of the genus Amphibacillus". The Journal of General and Applied Microbiology. 55 (2): 155–62. doi:10.2323/jgam.55.155. PMID 19436132.
  5. C.L. Schoch; et al. "Amphibacillus". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. Retrieved 2025-02-28.
  6. "The LTP". Retrieved 10 December 2024.
  7. "LTP_all tree in newick format". Retrieved 10 December 2024.
  8. "LTP_10_2024 Release Notes" (PDF). Retrieved 10 December 2024.
  9. "GTDB release 09-RS220". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
  10. "bac120_r220.sp_labels". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
  11. "Taxon History". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
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