Genus Acetoanaerobium
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Number of species, including synonyms, cited in this file: 2
Number of subspecies, including synonyms, cited in this file: 0
Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").
For a detailed description of this taxon see Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria (BMSAB).
Acetoanaerobium Sleat et al. 1985, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Acetoanaerobium noterae Sleat et al. 1985.
Etymology: L. n. acetum, vinegar; Gr. pref. an, not; Gr. n. aer aeros, air; Gr. n. bios, life; N.L. neut. n. Acetoanaerobium, vinegar anaerobe.
Valid publication: SLEAT (R.), MAH (R.A.) and ROBINSON (R.): Acetoanaerobium noterae gen. nov., sp. nov.: an anaerobic bacterium that forms acetate from H2 and CO2. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1985, 35, 10-15.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Acetoanaerobium noterae Sleat et al. 1985, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) NOT-3 = ATCC 35199.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: GU562448.
Etymology: N.L. gen. n. noterae, of Notera; named for its source, the Notera oil exploration site in Israel.
Valid publication: SLEAT (R.), MAH (R.A.) and ROBINSON (R.): Acetoanaerobium noterae gen. nov., sp. nov.: an anaerobic bacterium that forms acetate from H2 and CO2. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1985, 35, 10-15.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Note: The 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain shows an unexpected affiliation with the family ¤ Peptostreptococcaceae (88.7% similarity against ¤ Filifactor villosus).
Reference: YARZA (P.), SPRÖER (C.), SWIDERSKI (J.), MROTZEK (N.), SPRING (S.), TINDALL (B.J.), GRONOW (S.), PUKALL (R.), KLENK (H.P.), LANG (E.), VERBARG (S.), CROUCH (A.), LILBURN (T.), BECK (B.), UNOSSON (C.), CARDEW (S.), MOORE (E.R.B.), GOMILA (M.), NAKAGAWA (Y.), JANSSENS (D.), DE VOS (P.), PEIREN (J.), SUTTELS (T.), CLERMONT (D.), BIZET (C.), SAKAMOTO (M.), IIDA (T.), KUDO (T.), KOSAKO (Y.), OSHIDA (Y.), OHKUMA (M.), ARAHAL (D.R.), SPIECK (E.), POMMERENING ROESER (A.), FIGGE (M.), PARK (D.), BUCHANAN (P.), CIFUENTES (A.), MUNOZ (R.), EUZEBY (J.P.), SCHLEIFER (K.H.), LUDWIG (W.), AMANN (R.), GLÖCKNER (F.O.) and RÓSSELLO-MÓRA (R.): Sequencing orphan species initiative (SOS): Filling the gaps in the 16S rRNA gene sequence database for all species with validly published names. Syst. Appl. Microbiol., 2013, 36, 69-73.
Publication online
Acetoanaerobium sticklandii Galperin et al. 2016, comb. nov.
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) ATCC 12662=DSM 519=JCM 1433.
Sequence accession no. (complete genome) for the type strain: FP565809.
Whole-genome sequence accession no. for the type strain: FP565809.
Basonym: ¤ Clostridium sticklandii Stadtman and McClung 1957.
Etymology: N.L. gen. masc. n. sticklandii, named after British biochemist Leonard Hubert Stickland, who described a key reaction in clostridial amino acid metabolism.
Source: Environmental - marine.
Valid publication: GALPERIN, M. Y., BROVER, V., TOLSTOY, I. and YUTIN, N. 2016. Phylogenomic analysis of the family Peptostreptococcaceae (Clostridium cluster XI) and proposal for reclassification of Clostridium litorale (Fendrich et al. 1991) and Eubacterium acidaminophilum (Zindel et al. 1989) as Peptoclostridium litorale gen. nov. comb. nov. and Peptoclostridium acidaminophilum comb. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 66, 5506-5513.
Original article in IJSEM Online