Weeksellaceae

Weeksellaceae
Elizabethkingia meningoseptica on a blood agar plate
Elizabethkingia meningoseptica on a blood agar plate
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Bacteroidota
Class: Flavobacteriia
Order: Flavobacteriales
Family: Weeksellaceae
García-López et al. 2020[1]
Genera

See text.

Weeksellaceae is a family in the order Flavobacteriales.[2][3] It was proposed to be split from the Flavobacteriaceae in 2019, based on phylogenetic analysis.[1]

Genera

The family Weeksellaceae comprises the following genera:[2]

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature[2] and the phylogeny is based on whole-genome sequences.[1][a]

Notes

  1. ^ Spongiimonas and Wautersiella are not included in this phylogenetic tree.

References

  1. ^ a b c García-López M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Göker M. (2019). "Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes". Front Microbiol. 10: 2083. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2019.02083. PMC 6767994. PMID 31608019.
  2. ^ a b c Euzéby JP, Parte AC. "Weeksellaceae". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved June 29, 2021.
  3. ^ "Weeksellaceae". www.uniprot.org.
  4. ^ "Genus: Frigoriflavimonas". LPSN.DSMZ.de.

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