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Geobacillus

Geobacillus is a bacterial genus from the family Bacillaceae.

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Geobacillus
Geobacillus stearothermophilus on agar plate
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Bacillati
Phylum: Bacillota
Class: Bacilli
Order: Bacillales
Family: Bacillaceae
Genus: Geobacillus
Nazina et al. 20011
Type species
Geobacillus stearothermophilus
(Donk 1920) Nazina et al. 20011
Species2

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Geobacillus is a bacterial genus from the family Bacillaceae.134

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).2

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

G. icigianus Bryanskaya et al. 2015

G. subterraneus Nazina et al. 2001

G. subterraneus aromaticivorans Poli et al. 2013

G. thermodenitrificans (Manachini et al. 2000) Nazina et al. 2001

G. vulcani (Caccamo et al. 2000) Nazina et al. 2004

G. lituanicus Kuisiene, Raugalas & Chitavichius 2004

G. kaustophilus (Priest, Goodfellow & Todd 1989) Nazina et al. 2001

G. thermoleovorans (Zarilla & Perry 1988) Nazina et al. 2001

G. jurassicus Nazina et al. 2005

G.uzenensis Nazina et al. 2001

G. proteinophilus Semenova et al. 2019

G. stearothermophilus (Donk 1920) Nazina et al. 2001

G. thermocatenulatus (Golovacheva et al. 1991) Nazina et al. 2001

Geobacillus

G. subterraneus [incl. G.uzenensis]

G. thermodenitrificans

G. stearothermophilus

G. lituanicus

Flavobacterium thermophilum Loginova & Egorova 1982 non Yoshida & Oshima 1971

G. icigianus

G. jurassicus

G. vulcani

G. proteinophilus

G. thermocatenulatus

"G. zalihae" Abd Rahman et al. 2007

G. thermoleovorans [incl. G. kaustophilus]

Unassigned species:

  • "G. anatolicus" Uysal et al. 2001 ex Caglayan & Bilgin 2011
  • "G. bogazici" Turker et al. 2003
  • "G. kaue" Uysal et al. 2001 ex Caglayan & Bilgin 2011
  • "G. mahadia" Mohtar et al. 2016
  • "G. thermopakistaniensis" Siddiqui et al. 2014
  • "G. thermoparaffinivorans" Wang et al. 2005
  • "G. tropicalis" Burgos-Figueroa et al. 2006
  • "G. uralicus" Popova et al. 2002
References

References

  1. A.C. Parte; et al. "Geobacillus". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved 2025-02-28.
  2. C.L. Schoch; et al. "Geobacillus". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. Retrieved 2025-02-28.
  3. UniProt
  4. Paul De Vos; et al., eds. (2009). Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology (2nd ed.). Dordrecht: Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-68489-5.
  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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