Genus Asaia

Name: Asaia Yamada et al. 2000

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: A.sa’i.a. N.L. fem. n. Asaia, named after Toshinobu Asai, a Japanese bacteriologist who contributed to the systematics of acetic acid bacteria

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Asai-), a-SA-i-a

Type species: Asaia bogorensis Yamada et al. 2000

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Yamada Y, Katsura K, Kawasaki H, Widyastuti Y, Saono S, Seki T, Uchimura T, Komagata K. Asaia bogorensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an unusual acetic acid bacterium in the alpha-Proteobacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:823-829. 🇯🇵

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 50, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:951-953.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Notes:
- 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Yukphan et al. (2004), Malimas et al. (2008). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
- 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.11918 (N = 8).
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 7; NBRC: 6; DSM: 6; BCC: 4; NRIC: 3; IFO: 2; ATCC: 1; MTCC: 1; TISTR: 1; KCTC: 1.
- 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1". — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 8
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 8
Total number of child taxa: 10

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Asaia astilbes Suzuki et al. 2012	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
Asaia astilbis corrig. Suzuki et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Asaia bogorensis Yamada et al. 2000	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Asaia krungthepensis Yukphan et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Asaia lannaensis Malimas et al. 2008	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
Asaia lannensis corrig. Malimas et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Asaia platycodi Suzuki et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Asaia prunellae Suzuki et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Asaia siamensis Katsura et al. 2001	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Asaia spathodeae Kommanee et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Acetobacteraceae (ex Henrici 1939) Gillis and De Ley 1980

Assigned by: Degli Esposti M, Guerrero G, Rogel MA, Issotta F, Rojas-Villalobos C, Quatrini R, Martinez-Romero E. The phylogeny of Acetobacteraceae: photosynthetic traits and deranged respiratory enzymes. Microbiol Spectr 2023; 11:e0057523. 🇲🇽

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