Domain "Bacteria"
Name: "Bacteria" Woese et al. 1990
Etymology: Gr. neut. dim. n. baktêrion, small rod or staff; N.L. neut. pl. n. Bacteria
Original publication:
Woese CR, Kandler O, Wheelis ML. Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1990; 87:4576-4579. 
Nomenclatural status: not validly published
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Notes:
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Battistuzzi et al. (2004) assigned the superphylum "Terrabacteria" Battistuzzi et al. 2004 to this domain.
Publication:
Battistuzzi FU, Feijao A, Hedges SB. A genomic timescale of prokaryote evolution: insights into the origin of methanogenesis, phototrophy, and the colonization of land. BMC Evol Biol 2004; 4:44.
- Brenner et al. (2005) assigned the family Bradyrhizobiaceae Garrity et al. 2006 to this domain. Publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family VII. Bradyrhizobiaceae fam. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria) part C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 438.
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Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned the subkingdom "Negibacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2002 to this domain.
Publication:
Cavalier-Smith T. The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:7-76.
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Di Rienzi et al. (2013) assigned the phylum "Candidatus Melainabacteria" Di Rienzi et al. 2013 to this domain.
Publication:
Di Rienzi SC, Sharon I, Wrighton KC, Koren O, Hug LA, Thomas BC, Goodrich JK, Bell JT, Spector TD, Banfield JF, et al. The human gut and groundwater harbor non-photosynthetic bacteria belonging to a new candidate phylum sibling to Cyanobacteria. Elife 2013; 2:e01102.
- Komarek and Golubic (1990) assigned the family "Nostochopsidaceae" to this domain. Publication: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.
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Rinke et al. (2013) assigned the superphylum "Candidatus Patescibacteria" Rinke et al. 2013 to this domain.
Publication:
Rinke C, Schwientek P, Sczyrba A, Ivanova NN, Anderson IJ, Cheng JF, Darling A, Malfatti S, Swan BK, Gies EA, et al. Insights into the phylogeny and coding potential of microbial dark matter. Nature 2013; 499:431-437.
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Song et al. (2021) assigned the order "Treponematales" to this domain.
Publication:
Song Y, Herve V, Radek R, Pfeiffer F, Zheng H, Brune A. Characterization and phylogenomic analysis of Breznakiella homolactica gen. nov. sp. nov. indicate that termite gut treponemes evolved from non-acetogenic spirochetes in cockroaches. Environ Microbiol 2021; 23:4228-4245.
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Waite et al. (2020) assigned the phylum "Desulfobacterota" Waite et al. 2020 to this domain.
Publication:
Waite DW, Chuvochina M, Pelikan C, Parks DH, Yilmaz P, Wagner M, Loy A, Naganuma T, Nakai R, Whitman WB, et al. Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting major functional capabilities. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5972-6016.
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Whitman et al. (2018) assigned the phylum "Acidobacteriota" Whitman et al. 2018 to this domain.
Publication:
Whitman WB, Oren A, Chuvochina M, da Costa MS, Garrity GM, Rainey FA, Rossello-Mora R, Schink B, Sutcliffe I, Trujillo ME, et al. Proposal of the suffix -ota to denote phyla. Addendum to 'Proposal to include the rank of phylum in the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:967-969.
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Whitman et al. (2018) assigned the phylum "Nitrospirota" Whitman et al. 2018 to this domain.
Publication:
Whitman WB, Oren A, Chuvochina M, da Costa MS, Garrity GM, Rainey FA, Rossello-Mora R, Schink B, Sutcliffe I, Trujillo ME, et al. Proposal of the suffix -ota to denote phyla. Addendum to 'Proposal to include the rank of phylum in the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:967-969.
- This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Bacteira"; "Bacteriaa"; "Bacterie"; "Bacterima"; "Bacteriota"; "Bacteriua"; "Bncteria".
- This taxon name is a homonym of "Bacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2002.
- A nomenclatural type has not been designated.
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Minimal standards for the description of new taxa in this group were published in 2010.
Publication:
Tindall BJ, Rossello-Mora R, Busse HJ, Ludwig W, Kampfer P. Notes on the characterization of prokaryote strains for taxonomic purposes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:249-266.
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Battistuzzi et al. (2004) assigned the superphylum "Terrabacteria" Battistuzzi et al. 2004 to this domain.
Publication:
Battistuzzi FU, Feijao A, Hedges SB. A genomic timescale of prokaryote evolution: insights into the origin of methanogenesis, phototrophy, and the colonization of land. BMC Evol Biol 2004; 4:44.
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 79
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Child taxa:
Assigned by:
Woese CR, Kandler O, Wheelis ML. Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1990; 87:4576-4579.
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Record number: 167