List of taxa with candidatus status

This is a list of taxa with candidatus status.

Phyla

Classes

Orders

Families

Genera

"Ca. Accumulibacter" Hesselmann et al. 1999^[8]
"Ca. Allobeggiatoa" Hinck et al. 2011^[8]
"Ca. Arthromitus" Snel et al. 1995^[8]
"Ca. Bacilloplasma" Kostanjšek et al. 2007^[8]
"Ca. Baumannia" Moran et al. 2003^[8]
"Ca. Blochmannia" Sauer et al. 2000^[8]
"Ca. Carsonella" Thao et al. 2000^[8]
"Ca. Chlorothrix" Klappenbach and Pierson 2004^[8]
"Ca. Competibacter" Crocetti et al. 2002^[8]
"Ca. Contubernalis" Zhilina et al. 2005^[8]
"Ca. Desulforudis
"Ca. Endomicrobium" Stingl et al. 2005^[8]
"Ca. Epixenosoma"
"Ca. Giganthauma"
"Ca. Glomeribacter" Bianciotto et al. 2003^[8]
"Ca. Kleidoceria" Kuechler et al. 2010^[8]
"Ca. Kuenenia" Schmid et al. 2000^[8]
"Ca. Liberibacter"
"Ca. Lokiarchaeum"
"Ca. Lumbricincola" Nechitaylo et al. 2009^[8]
"Ca. Magnetobacterium" Murray and Stackebrandt 1995^[8]
"Ca. Methanoregula"
"Ca. Microthrix"
"Ca. Nardonella" Lefèvre et al. 2004^[8]
"Ca. Nitrosoarchaeum" Blainey et al. 2011^[8]
"Ca. Nitrosopumilus" Könneke et al. 2005^[8]
"Ca. Pelagibacter" Rappe et al. 2002^[8]
"Ca. Photodesmus" Hendry and Dunlap, 2011^[8]
"Ca. Phytoplasma" Firrao et al. 2004^[8]
"Ca. Portiera" Thao and Baumann 2004^[8]
"Ca. Procabacter" Horn et al. 2002^[8]
"Ca. Rhabdochlamydia"
"Ca. Riegeria" Gruber-Vodicka et al. 2011^[8]
"Ca. Rohrkolberia" Kuechler et al. 2011^[8]
"Ca. Salinibacter" Antón et al. 2000^[8]
"Ca. Savagella" Thompson et al. 2012^[8]
"Ca. Scalindua"
"Ca. Similichlamydia" Stride et al. 2013^[8]
"Ca. Symbiothrix" Hongoh et al. 2007^[8]
"Ca. Tremblaya" Thao et al. 2002^[8]
"Ca. Xiphinematobacter" Vandekerckhove et al. 2000^[8]

Species and subspecies

Unless otherwise noted (♦), these entries are from LPSN.^[8]

Former candidatus taxa

Armatimonadetes, formerly Candidate phylum OP10^[5]^[20]^[21]
Caldiserica, formerly Candidate phylum OP5^[5]^[22]
Elusimicrobia, formerly Termite Group 1^[23]
Lentisphaerae, formerly vadinBE97^[5]^[24]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Hug LA; et al. (2016). "A new view of the tree of life". Nature Microbiology. Article 16048 (5): 16048. doi:10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.48. PMID 27572647.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa ^ab ^ac ^ad ^ae ^af ^ag ^ah ^ai ^aj ^ak "ARB-Silva: comprehensive ribosomal RNA database". The ARB development Team. Retrieved January 2, 2016.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa ^ab ^ac ^ad ^ae ^af ^ag ^ah ^ai ^aj ^ak ^al ^am ^an ^ao ^ap ^aq ^ar ^as ^at ^au ^av ^aw ^ax ^ay ^az ^ba ^bb ^bc ^bd ^be ^bf ^bg ^bh ^bi ^bj ^bk ^bl ^bm ^bn ^bo ^bp ^bq ^br ^bs ^bt ^bu ^bv ^bw ^bx ^by ^bz ^ca ^cb ^cc ^cd ^ce ^cf ^cg ^ch ^ci ^cj ^ck "Taxonomy Browser". NCBI. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t "Hierarchy Browser". Ribosomal database project. Retrieved January 2, 2016.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y Rappe, M. S.; Giovannoni, S. J. (2003). "The Uncultured Microbial Majority". Annual Review of Microbiology. 57: 369–94. doi:10.1146/annurev.micro.57.030502.090759. PMID 14527284.
^ Wrighton KC; et al. (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. PMC 4069391. PMID 24621521.
^ Yeoh YK; et al. (2015). "Comparative Genomics of Candidate Phylum TM6 Suggests That Parasitism Is Widespread and Ancestral in This Lineage". Mol Biol Evol. 33 (4): 915–927. doi:10.1093/molbev/msv281. PMC 4776705. PMID 26615204.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa ^ab ^ac ^ad ^ae ^af ^ag ^ah ^ai ^aj ^ak ^al Parte, A.C; Euzéby, J.P. (2017). "Names included in the category Candidatus". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
^ Kirkegaard, Rasmus Hansen; Dueholm, Morten Simonsen; McIlroy, Simon Jon; Nierychlo, Marta; Karst, SÃ¸ren Michael; Albertsen, Mads; Nielsen, Per HalkjÃ¦r (2016-10-01). "Genomic insights into members of the candidate phylum Hyd24-12 common in mesophilic anaerobic digesters". The ISME Journal. 10 (10): 2352–2364. doi:10.1038/ismej.2016.43. ISSN 1751-7370. PMC 5030696. PMID 27058503.
^ Podosokorskaya OA; et al. (2013). "Characterization of Melioribacter roseus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel facultatively anaerobic thermophilic cellulolytic bacterium from the class Ignavibacteria, and a proposal of a novel bacterial phylum Ignavibacteriae". Environ. Microbiol. 15 (6): 1759–71. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.12067. PMID 23297868.
^ Sekiguchi Y; et al. (2015). "First genomic insights into members of a candidate bacterial phylum responsible for wastewater bulking". PeerJ. 3: e740. doi:10.7717/peerj.740. PMC 4312070. PMID 25650158.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
^ Lucker S; et al. (2013). "The genome of Nitrospina gracilis illuminates the metabolism and evolution of the major marine nitrite oxidizer". Front. Microbiol. 4: 27. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2013.00027. PMC 3578206. PMID 23439773.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
^ Brown CT; et al. (2015). "Unusual biology across a group comprising more than 15% of domain Bacteria". Nature. 523 (7559): 208–11. Bibcode:2015Natur.523..208B. doi:10.1038/nature14486. PMID 26083755.
^ Fieseler L; et al. (2004). "Discovery of the Novel Candidate Phylum "Poribacteria" in Marine Sponges". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 70 (6): 3724–32. doi:10.1128/AEM.70.6.3724-3732.2004. PMC 427773. PMID 15184179.
^ Albertsen M; et al. (2013). "Genome sequences of rare, uncultured bacteria obtained by differential coverage binning of multiple metagenomes". Nat. Biotechnol. 31 (6): 533–8. doi:10.1038/nbt.2579. PMID 23707974.
^ Hugenholtz P; et al. (1998). "Impact of culture-independent studies on the emerging phylogenetic view of bacterial diversity". Journal of Bacteriology. 180 (18): 4765–74. PMC 107498. PMID 9733676.
^ Marcy Y et al., "Dissecting biological "dark matter" with single-cell genetic analysis of rare and uncultivated TM7 microbes from the human mouth.", Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2007 Jul 9; 104(29):11889-94
^ Wilson MC; et al. (2014). "An environmental bacterial taxon with a large and distinct metabolic repertoire". Nature. 506 (7486): 58–62. Bibcode:2014Natur.506...58W. doi:10.1038/nature12959. PMID 24476823.
^ Dojka MA; et al. (2000). "Expanding the known diversity and environmental distribution of an uncultured phylogenetic division of bacteria". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 66 (4): 1617–21. doi:10.1128/AEM.66.4.1617-1621.2000. PMC 92031. PMID 10742250.
^ Tamaki H; et al. (2010). "Armatimonas rosea gen. nov., sp. nov., a Gram-negative, aerobic, chemoheterotrophic bacterium of a novel bacterial phylum, Armatimonadetes phyl. nov., formally called the candidate phylum OP10". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 61 (Pt 6): 1442–7. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.025643-0. PMID 20622056.
^ Lee KCY; et al. (2010). "Chthonomonas calidirosea gen. nov., sp. nov., an aerobic, pigmented, thermophilic microorganism of a novel bacterial class, Chthonomonadetes classis. nov., of the newly described phylum Armatimonadetes originally designated candidate division OP10". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 61 (Pt 10): 2482–90. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.027235-0. PMID 21097641.
^ Mori K; et al. (2009). "Caldisericum exile gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, thermophilic, filamentous bacterium of a novel bacterial phylum, Caldiserica phyl. nov., originally called the candidate phylum OP5, and description of Caldisericaceae fam. nov., Caldisericales ord. nov. and Caldisericia classis nov". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 59 (Pt 11): 2894–8. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.010033-0. PMID 19628600.
^ Geissinger O; et al. (2009). "The Ultramicrobacterium Elusimicrobium minutum gen. nov., sp. nov., the first cultivated representative of the Termite Group 1 Phylum". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 75 (9): 2831–40. doi:10.1128/AEM.02697-08. PMC 2681718. PMID 19270135.
^ Cho JC; et al. (2004). "Lentisphaera araneosa gen. nov., sp. nov, a transparent exopolymer producing marine bacterium, and the description of a novel bacterial phylum, Lentisphaerae". Environmental Microbiology. 6 (6): 611–21. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2004.00614.x. PMID 15142250.

[Hug-1] Hug LA; et al. (2016). "A new view of the tree of life". Nature Microbiology. Article 16048 (5): 16048. doi:10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.48. PMID 27572647.

[arbsilva-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa ^ab ^ac ^ad ^ae ^af ^ag ^ah ^ai ^aj ^ak "ARB-Silva: comprehensive ribosomal RNA database". The ARB development Team. Retrieved January 2, 2016.

[NCBI-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa ^ab ^ac ^ad ^ae ^af ^ag ^ah ^ai ^aj ^ak ^al ^am ^an ^ao ^ap ^aq ^ar ^as ^at ^au ^av ^aw ^ax ^ay ^az ^ba ^bb ^bc ^bd ^be ^bf ^bg ^bh ^bi ^bj ^bk ^bl ^bm ^bn ^bo ^bp ^bq ^br ^bs ^bt ^bu ^bv ^bw ^bx ^by ^bz ^ca ^cb ^cc ^cd ^ce ^cf ^cg ^ch ^ci ^cj ^ck "Taxonomy Browser". NCBI. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

[RDP10-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t "Hierarchy Browser". Ribosomal database project. Retrieved January 2, 2016.

[Rappe-5] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y Rappe, M. S.; Giovannoni, S. J. (2003). "The Uncultured Microbial Majority". Annual Review of Microbiology. 57: 369–94. doi:10.1146/annurev.micro.57.030502.090759. PMID 14527284.

[6] Wrighton KC; et al. (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. PMC 4069391. PMID 24621521.

[Yeoh-7] Yeoh YK; et al. (2015). "Comparative Genomics of Candidate Phylum TM6 Suggests That Parasitism Is Widespread and Ancestral in This Lineage". Mol Biol Evol. 33 (4): 915–927. doi:10.1093/molbev/msv281. PMC 4776705. PMID 26615204.

[LPSN-8] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa ^ab ^ac ^ad ^ae ^af ^ag ^ah ^ai ^aj ^ak ^al Parte, A.C; Euzéby, J.P. (2017). "Names included in the category Candidatus". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature. Retrieved 4 January 2018.

[Kirkegaard_2352–2364-9] Kirkegaard, Rasmus Hansen; Dueholm, Morten Simonsen; McIlroy, Simon Jon; Nierychlo, Marta; Karst, SÃ¸ren Michael; Albertsen, Mads; Nielsen, Per HalkjÃ¦r (2016-10-01). "Genomic insights into members of the candidate phylum Hyd24-12 common in mesophilic anaerobic digesters". The ISME Journal. 10 (10): 2352–2364. doi:10.1038/ismej.2016.43. ISSN 1751-7370. PMC 5030696. PMID 27058503.

[10] Podosokorskaya OA; et al. (2013). "Characterization of Melioribacter roseus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel facultatively anaerobic thermophilic cellulolytic bacterium from the class Ignavibacteria, and a proposal of a novel bacterial phylum Ignavibacteriae". Environ. Microbiol. 15 (6): 1759–71. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.12067. PMID 23297868.

[Sekiguchi-11] Sekiguchi Y; et al. (2015). "First genomic insights into members of a candidate bacterial phylum responsible for wastewater bulking". PeerJ. 3: e740. doi:10.7717/peerj.740. PMC 4312070. PMID 25650158.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)

[Nitrospina-12] Lucker S; et al. (2013). "The genome of Nitrospina gracilis illuminates the metabolism and evolution of the major marine nitrite oxidizer". Front. Microbiol. 4: 27. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2013.00027. PMC 3578206. PMID 23439773.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)

[CPR-13] Brown CT; et al. (2015). "Unusual biology across a group comprising more than 15% of domain Bacteria". Nature. 523 (7559): 208–11. Bibcode:2015Natur.523..208B. doi:10.1038/nature14486. PMID 26083755.

[Pori-14] Fieseler L; et al. (2004). "Discovery of the Novel Candidate Phylum "Poribacteria" in Marine Sponges". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 70 (6): 3724–32. doi:10.1128/AEM.70.6.3724-3732.2004. PMC 427773. PMID 15184179.

[15] Albertsen M; et al. (2013). "Genome sequences of rare, uncultured bacteria obtained by differential coverage binning of multiple metagenomes". Nat. Biotechnol. 31 (6): 533–8. doi:10.1038/nbt.2579. PMID 23707974.

[pace-16] Hugenholtz P; et al. (1998). "Impact of culture-independent studies on the emerging phylogenetic view of bacterial diversity". Journal of Bacteriology. 180 (18): 4765–74. PMC 107498. PMID 9733676.

[17] Marcy Y et al., "Dissecting biological "dark matter" with single-cell genetic analysis of rare and uncultivated TM7 microbes from the human mouth.", Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2007 Jul 9; 104(29):11889-94

[Tect-18] Wilson MC; et al. (2014). "An environmental bacterial taxon with a large and distinct metabolic repertoire". Nature. 506 (7486): 58–62. Bibcode:2014Natur.506...58W. doi:10.1038/nature12959. PMID 24476823.

[19] Dojka MA; et al. (2000). "Expanding the known diversity and environmental distribution of an uncultured phylogenetic division of bacteria". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 66 (4): 1617–21. doi:10.1128/AEM.66.4.1617-1621.2000. PMC 92031. PMID 10742250.

[20] Tamaki H; et al. (2010). "Armatimonas rosea gen. nov., sp. nov., a Gram-negative, aerobic, chemoheterotrophic bacterium of a novel bacterial phylum, Armatimonadetes phyl. nov., formally called the candidate phylum OP10". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 61 (Pt 6): 1442–7. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.025643-0. PMID 20622056.

[21] Lee KCY; et al. (2010). "Chthonomonas calidirosea gen. nov., sp. nov., an aerobic, pigmented, thermophilic microorganism of a novel bacterial class, Chthonomonadetes classis. nov., of the newly described phylum Armatimonadetes originally designated candidate division OP10". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 61 (Pt 10): 2482–90. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.027235-0. PMID 21097641.

[22] Mori K; et al. (2009). "Caldisericum exile gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, thermophilic, filamentous bacterium of a novel bacterial phylum, Caldiserica phyl. nov., originally called the candidate phylum OP5, and description of Caldisericaceae fam. nov., Caldisericales ord. nov. and Caldisericia classis nov". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 59 (Pt 11): 2894–8. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.010033-0. PMID 19628600.

[TG1-23] Geissinger O; et al. (2009). "The Ultramicrobacterium Elusimicrobium minutum gen. nov., sp. nov., the first cultivated representative of the Termite Group 1 Phylum". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 75 (9): 2831–40. doi:10.1128/AEM.02697-08. PMC 2681718. PMID 19270135.

[24] Cho JC; et al. (2004). "Lentisphaera araneosa gen. nov., sp. nov, a transparent exopolymer producing marine bacterium, and the description of a novel bacterial phylum, Lentisphaerae". Environmental Microbiology. 6 (6): 611–21. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2004.00614.x. PMID 15142250.

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Former candidatus taxa

See also

References