Coprothermobacterota

Coprothermobacterota is a newly proposed phylum of nonmotile, rod-shaped bacteria.[1]

Coprothermobacterota
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Coprothermobacterota
Class

Coprothermobacteria

Its members are strictly anaerobic and thermophilic, growing at optimal temperatures between 55 °C and 70 °C.[2]

The name of this phyum is based on an early genus, dubbed "Coprothermobacter", a term whose etymology derives from the Greek words "kopros", meaning manure, and "thermos", warm, referring to the fact that these bacteria are capable of living at relatively high temperatures, with a maximum growth temperature of 75 °C.[3]

References

  1. Pavan, María Elisa; Pavan, Esteban E.; Glaeser, Stefanie P.; Etchebehere, Claudia; Kämpfer, Peter; Pettinari, María Julia; López, Nancy I. (2018). "Proposal for a new classification of a deep branching bacterial phylogenetic lineage: transfer of Coprothermobacter proteolyticus and Coprothermobacter platensis to Coprothermobacteraceae fam. nov., within Coprothermobacterales ord. nov., Coprothermobacteria classis nov. and Coprothermobacterota phyl. nov. and emended description of the family Thermodesulfobiaceae". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 68 (5): 1627–1632. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.002720. PMID 29595416.
  2. Ollivier, Bernard; Garcia, Jean-Louis (2015-09-14), "Coprothermobacter", Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, pp. 1–6, doi:10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00752, ISBN 9781118960608
  3. Rainey, Fred A.; Stackebrandt, Erko (1993). "Transfer of the Type Species of the Genus Thermobacteroides to the Genus Thermoanaerobacter as Thermoanaerobacter acetoethylicus(Ben-Bassat and Zeikus 1981) comb. nov., Description of Coprothermobacter gen. nov., and Reclassification of Thermobacteroides proteolyticus as Coprothermobacter proteolyticus(Ollivier et al. 1985) comb. nov". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 43 (4): 857–859. doi:10.1099/00207713-43-4-857.


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