Parvibacter is a genus in the phylum Actinomycetota containing a single species, Parvibacter caecicola.[1]

Parvibacter
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Actinomycetota
Class: Coriobacteriia
Order: Eggerthellales
Family: Eggerthellaceae
Genus: Parvibacter
Clavel et al. 2013
Type species
Parvibacter caecicola
Clavel et al. 2013
Species
  • P. caecicola
Synonyms
  • Adlercreutzia caecicola (Clavel et al. 2013) Nouioui et al. 2018

Taxonomy edit

In 2018, Nouioui et al. proposed merging the genus Parvibacter along with the genera Asaccharobacter and Enterorhabdus within the genus Aldercreutzia based on observed clustering of these genera within phylogenetic trees.[2] However, subsequent phylogenetic analyses observed that Parvibacter caecicola exhibited much deeper branching compared to other Aldercreutzia species.[1] Its phylogenetic distinctness was further demonstrated by the presence of five conserved signature indels (CSIs) that are exclusively shared by all Aldercreutzia species except for P. caecicola.[1] Thus, P. caecicola was transferred back into the genus Parvibacter, which continues to be a validly published genus.

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References edit

  1. ^ a b c Gupta, Radhey S. (2021), Carro, Lorena (ed.), "Eggerthellaceae", Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria, American Cancer Society, pp. 1–11, doi:10.1002/9781118960608.fbm00384, ISBN 978-1-118-96060-8, S2CID 243126790, retrieved 2021-07-05
  2. ^ Nouioui, Imen; Carro, Lorena; García-López, Marina; Meier-Kolthoff, Jan P.; Woyke, Tanja; Kyrpides, Nikos C.; Pukall, Rüdiger; Klenk, Hans-Peter; Goodfellow, Michael; Göker, Markus (2018). "Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria". Frontiers in Microbiology. 9: 2007. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2018.02007. ISSN 1664-302X. PMC 6113628. PMID 30186281.