Berkelbacteria (formerly ACD58) is a bacterial phylum with candidate status, meaning there are no cultured representatives for this group. It is part of the Candidate Phyla Radiation.

Berkelbacteria
Scientific classification
Domain:
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Phylum:
"Berkelbacteria"

Wrighton et al. 2014

Berkelbacteria was first reported in 2012, at which time it was classified as a divergent lineage of Parcubacteria (OD1) and referred to as ACD58.[1] It was proposed as a phylum in 2014.[2] Representatives of this phylum have been detected in a variety of environments, including a deep thermokarst lake in the Sasapimakwananisikw River Valley (QC, Canada),[3] an acetate-amended alluvial aquifer adjacent to the Colorado River (CO, USA),[2] and marine sediments from the Peru Margin seafloor.[4]

References edit

  1. ^ Wrighton, Kelly C.; Thomas, Brian C.; Sharon, Itai; Miller, Christopher S.; Castelle, Cindy J.; VerBerkmoes, Nathan C.; Wilkins, Michael J.; Hettich, Robert L.; Lipton, Mary S.; Williams, Kenneth H.; Long, Philip E. (2012-09-28). "Fermentation, Hydrogen, and Sulfur Metabolism in Multiple Uncultivated Bacterial Phyla". Science. 337 (6102): 1661–1665. Bibcode:2012Sci...337.1661W. doi:10.1126/science.1224041. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 23019650. S2CID 10362580.
  2. ^ a b Wrighton, Kelly C.; Castelle, Cindy J.; Wilkins, Michael J.; Hug, Laura A.; Sharon, Itai; Thomas, Brian C.; Handley, Kim M.; Mullin, Sean W.; Nicora, Carrie D.; Singh, Andrea; Lipton, Mary S. (July 2014). "Metabolic interdependencies between phylogenetically novel fermenters and respiratory organisms in an unconfined aquifer". The ISME Journal. 8 (7): 1452–1463. doi:10.1038/ismej.2013.249. ISSN 1751-7370. PMC 4069391. PMID 24621521.
  3. ^ Vigneron, Adrien; Cruaud, Perrine; Langlois, Valérie; Lovejoy, Connie; Culley, Alexander I.; Vincent, Warwick F. (2020). "Ultra-small and abundant: Candidate phyla radiation bacteria are potential catalysts of carbon transformation in a thermokarst lake ecosystem". Limnology and Oceanography Letters. 5 (2): 212–220. doi:10.1002/lol2.10132. ISSN 2378-2242.
  4. ^ Orsi, William D.; Richards, Thomas A.; Francis, Warren R. (January 2018). "Predicted microbial secretomes and their target substrates in marine sediment". Nature Microbiology. 3 (1): 32–37. doi:10.1038/s41564-017-0047-9. ISSN 2058-5276. PMID 29062087. S2CID 3355333.