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Vagococcus

Vagococcus is a genus of gram-positive bacteria. They are motile or nonmotile cocci which do not form spores. The name Vagococcus comes from Latin adjective vagus meaning wandering; and the Greek noun coccus a grain or berry, Vagococcus - wandering coccus, because Vagococcus fluvialis and some other Vagococcus species are motile, an unusual property for a lactic acid bacteria.

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Vagococcus
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Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Bacillati
Phylum: Bacillota
Class: Bacilli
Order: Lactobacillales
Family: Enterococcaceae
Genus: Vagococcus
Collins, et al. 1989
Type species
Vagococcus fluvialis
Collins et al. 1990
Species1

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Vagococcus is a genus of gram-positive bacteria. They are motile or nonmotile cocci which do not form spores.2 The name Vagococcus comes from Latin adjective vagus meaning wandering; and the Greek noun coccus a grain or berry, Vagococcus - wandering coccus, because Vagococcus fluvialis and some other Vagococcus species are motile, an unusual property for a lactic acid bacteria.3

History

The first Vagococcus species, Vagococcus fluvialis, was isolated from chicken feces in 1974. However, the genus was not recognized as distinct until 1989.2

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).4

16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024567 120 marker proteins based GTDB 09-RS2208910
Vagococcus
Vagococcus

V. entomophilus Killer et al. 2014

V. humatus Sundararaman, Srinivasan & Lee 2017

V. lutrae Lawson et al. 1999

V. elongatus Lawson et al. 2007

V. xieshaowenii Ge et al. 2020

"V. zengguangii" Ge et al. 2021

V. allomyrinae Kim et al. 2022

V. salmoninarum Wallbanks et al. 1990

V. intermedius Johansson et al. 2023

V. coleopterorum Hyun et al. 2022

V. fessus Hoyles et al. 2000

V. proximus Johansson et al. 2023

V. acidifermentans Wang et al. 2011

V. silagei Wu et al. 2020

V. penaei Jaffrès et al. 2010

V. vulneris Shewmaker et al. 2019

V. fluvialis Collins et al. 1990

"Ca. V. giribetii" Schwartzman et al. 2023

V. carniphilus Shewmaker et al. 2004

V. hydrophili Hyun et al. 2022

V. bubulae Shewmaker et al. 2019

V. luciliae Guzman et al. 2023

V. martis Tak et al. 2017

V. teuberi Wullschleger et al. 2018

Unassigned species:

  • V. jeotgali Joe et al. 2024
See also

See also

References

References

  1. J.P. Euzéby. "Vagococcus". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved 2022-09-09.
  2. Wang L; Cui YS; Kwon CS; Lee ST; Lee JS; Im WT (2011). "Vagococcus acidifermentans sp. nov., isolated from an acideogenic fermentation bioreactor". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 61: 1123–1126. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.022087-0. PMID 20543153.
  3. Collins MD; Ash C; Farrow JAE; Wallbanks S; Williams AM (1989). "16S Ribosomal ribonucleic acid sequence analyses of lactococci and related taxa. Description of Vagococcus fluvialis gen. nov., sp. nov". Journal of Applied Microbiology. 67: 453–460. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2672.1989.tb02516.x. PMID 2479630.
  4. Sayers; et al. "Vagococcus". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
  5. "The LTP". Retrieved 10 December 2024.
  6. "LTP_all tree in newick format". Retrieved 10 December 2024.
  7. "LTP_10_2024 Release Notes" (PDF). Retrieved 10 December 2024.
  8. "GTDB release 09-RS220". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
  9. "bac120_r220.sp_labels". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
  10. "Taxon History". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
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