Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria

A Hördt, MG López, JP Meier-Kolthoff… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The class Alphaproteobacteria is comprised of a diverse assemblage of Gram-negative
bacteria that includes organisms of varying morphologies, physiologies and habitat …

Recent changes to the classification of symbiotic, nitrogen-fixing, legume-associating bacteria: a review

A Shamseldin, A Abdelkhalek, MJ Sadowsky - Symbiosis, 2017 - Springer
The Rhizobia are collectively comprised of gram negative soil bacteria that have the ability
to form symbiotic nitrogen-fixing root and/or stem nodules in association with leguminous …

The changing paradigm of rhizobial taxonomy and its systematic growth upto postgenomic technologies

J Rajkumari, P Katiyar, S Dheeman, P Pandey… - World Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Rhizobia are a diazotrophic group of bacteria that are usually isolated form the nodules in
roots, stem of leguminous plants and are able to form nodules in the host plant owing to the …

Defining the Rhizobium leguminosarum Species Complex

JPW Young, S Moeskjær, A Afonin, P Rahi, M Maluk… - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Bacteria currently included in Rhizobium leguminosarum are too diverse to be considered a
single species, so we can refer to this as a species complex (the Rlc). We have found 429 …

Deep-sea plastisphere: long-term colonization by plastic-associated bacterial and archaeal communities in the Southwest Atlantic Ocean

L Agostini, JCF Moreira, AG Bendia, MCP Kmit… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Marine plastic pollution is a global concern because of continuous release into the oceans
over the last several decades. Although recent studies have made efforts to characterize the …

List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published

A Oren, GM Garrity - International journal of systematic …, 2015 - microbiologyresearch.org
The purpose of this announcement is to effect the valid publication of the following effectively
published new names and new combinations under the procedure described in the …

Phylogenomic Analyses of the Genus Pseudomonas Lead to the Rearrangement of Several Species and the Definition of New Genera

Z Saati-Santamaría, E Peral-Aranega, E Velázquez… - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Pseudomonas represents a very important bacterial genus that inhabits
many environments and plays either prejudicial or beneficial roles for higher hosts …

Phylogenomic reappraisal of the family Rhizobiaceae at the genus and species levels, including the description of Ectorhizobium quercum gen. nov., sp. nov.

T Ma, H Xue, C Piao, N Jiang, Y Li - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The family Rhizobiaceae contains 19 validly described genera including the rhizobia
groups, many of which are important nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Early classification of …

Enhanced recovery of microbial genes and genomes from a marine water column using long-read metagenomics

JM Haro-Moreno, M López-Pérez… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Third-generation sequencing has penetrated little in metagenomics due to the high error
rate and dependence for assembly on short-read designed bioinformatics. However, second …

Description of Flavimaribacter sediminis gen. nov., sp. nov., a New Member of the Family Rhizobiaceae Isolated from Marine Sediment

XN Wang, L Wang, W He, Q Yang, DF Zhang - Current Microbiology, 2023 - Springer
A novel Gram-staining-negative, aerobic and rod-shaped bacterium, designated WL0058T,
was isolated from coastal sediment sample collected in Nantong city, Jiangsu province of …