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Slackia

Slackia is a genus of Actinomycetota, in the family Eggerthellaceae. Slackia is named after the microbiologist Geoffrey Slack.

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Slackia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Bacillati
Phylum: Actinomycetota
Class: Coriobacteriia
Order: Eggerthellales
Family: Eggerthellaceae
Genus: Slackia
Wade et al. 19991
Type species
Slackia exigua
(Poco et al. 1996) Wade et al. 1999
Species2

Slackia is a genus of Actinomycetota, in the family Eggerthellaceae.13 Slackia is named after the microbiologist Geoffrey Slack.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).2

16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024567 120 marker proteins based GTDB 10-RS2268910
Slackia
Slackia

S. exigua (Poco et al. 1996) Wade et al. 1999

S. heliotrinireducens corrig. (Lanigan 1983) Wade et al. 1999

S. isoflavoniconvertens Matthies, Blaut & Braune 2009

S. equolifaciens Jin et al. 2010

S. faecicanis Lawson et al. 2005

S. piriformis Nagai, Watanabe & Morotomi 2010

References

References

  1. Slackia in LPSN; Freese, H. M.; Meier-Kolthoff, J. P.; Sardà Carbasse, J.; Afolayan, A. O.; Göker, M. (29 October 2025). "TYGS and LPSN in 2025: a Global Core Biodata Resource for genome-based classification and nomenclature of prokaryotes within DSMZ Digital Diversity". Nucleic Acids Research. 53: D1–D12. doi:10.1093/nar/gkaf1110.
  2. C.L. Schoch; et al. "Slackia". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. Retrieved 2025-02-28.
  3. Parker, Charles Thomas; Taylor, Dorothea; Garrity, George M (2010). Parker, Charles Thomas; Garrity, George M (eds.). "Nomenclature Abstract for Slackia Wade et al. 1999 emend. Nagai et al. 2010". The NamesforLife Abstracts. doi:10.1601/nm.5758.
  4. Wade, William G.; Dewhirst, Floyd E. (2015). "Slackia". Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. pp. 1–5. doi:10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00221. ISBN 9781118960608.
  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 10-RS226". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
  9. "bac120_r226.sp_label". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
  10. "Taxon History". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 1 May 2025.