Holosporaceae
The Holosporaceae are a family of bacteria, formerly included in the order Rickettsiales, but now raised to their own order, the Holosporales. The member Holospora is an intracellular parasite found in the unicellular protozoa Paramecium.[1]
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The genera Caedibacter, Holospora, Lyticum, Odyssella, Pseudocaedibacter, Pseudolyticum and Tectibacter are Incertae sedis.[1]
Genome
Draft genome sequences are available for three Holospora species [2] and Odyssella thessalonicensis [3] .[4]
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| The cladogram of Rickettsidae has been inferred by Ferla et al. [5] from the comparison of 16S + 23S ribosomal RNA sequences. |
References
- Garrity, George M.; Brenner, Don J.; Krieg, Noel R.; Staley, James T. (eds.) (2005). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Volume Two: The Proteobacteria, Part C: The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria. New York, New York: Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-24145-6.
- Dohra; et al. (2014). "Draft genome sequences of three Holospora species (Holospora obtusa, Holospora undulata, and Holospora elegans), endonuclear symbiotic bacteria of the ciliate Paramecium caudatum". FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 359 (1): 16–8. doi:10.1111/1574-6968.12577. PMID 25115770.
- Birtles, R. J; Rowbotham, T. J; Michel, R; Pitcher, D. G; Lascola, B; Alexiou-Daniel, S; Raoult, D (Jan 2000). "'Candidatus Odyssella thessalonicensis' gen. nov., sp. nov., an obligate intracellular parasite of Acanthamoeba species". Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 50 (1): 63–72. doi:10.1099/00207713-50-1-63. PMID 10826788.
- Georgiades, K; Madoui, M. A; Le, P; Robert, C; Raoult, D (2011). "Phylogenomic analysis of Odyssella thessalonicensis fortifies the common origin of Rickettsiales, Pelagibacter ubique and Reclimonas americana mitochondrion". PLOS ONE. 6 (9): e24857. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0024857. PMC 3177885. PMID 21957463.
- Ferla MP, Thrash JC, Giovannoni SJ, Patrick WM (2013). "New rRNA gene-based phylogenies of the Alphaproteobacteria provide perspective on major groups, mitochondrial ancestry and phylogenetic instability". PLOS One. 8 (12): e83383. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0083383. PMC 3859672. PMID 24349502.
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