Etymology:
Ac.ti.no.bac.te’ri.a. Gr. fem. n.aktis (gen. aktînos), a ray, beam; N.L. neut. n.bacterium, a rod; N.L. neut. pl. n.bacteria, plural of bacterium; N.L. neut. pl. n.Actinobacteria, actinomycete bacteria with diverse morphologies
Original publication:
Goodfellow M. Phylum XXVI. Actinobacteria phyl. nov. In: Goodfellow M, Kämpfer P, H.-J. B, Trujillo ME, Suzuki K, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 5, Springer, New York, 2012, p. 33-34.
Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned this phylum to the subkingdom "Posibacteria" Cavalier-Smith 1987.Publication:
Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.
Goodfellow et al. (2012) assigned this phylum to the domain "Bacteria" Woese et al. 1990.Publication:
Goodfellow M. Phylum XXVI. Actinobacteria phyl. nov. In: Goodfellow M, Kämpfer P, H.-J. B, Trujillo ME, Suzuki K, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 5, Springer, New York, 2012, p. 33-34.
Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned the class "Acidimicrobia" to this phylum.Publication:
Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.
Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned the class "Actinobacteriia" to this phylum.Publication:
Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.
Feng et al. (2020) assigned the order Motilibacterales Salam et al. 2020 to this phylum.Publication:
Feng YZ, Chunyu WX, Liang R, Hahnke RL, Schumann P, Zhao YR, Gao S, Yin M, Ji Y, Sun L, et al.Vallicoccus soli gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel actinobacterium isolated from soil, and description of Vallicoccaceae fam. nov., Motilibacterales ord. nov. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2020; 113:2155-2165.
Ghai et al. (2013) assigned the order "Candidatus Actinomarinales" Ghai et al. 2013 to this phylum.Publication:
Ghai R, Mizuno CM, Picazo A, Camacho A, Rodriguez-Valera F. Metagenomics uncovers a new group of low GC and ultra-small marine Actinobacteria. Sci Rep 2013; 3:2471.
Goodfellow et al. (2012) assigned the class Actinobacteria Stackebrandt et al. 1997 to this phylum.Publication:
Goodfellow M. Phylum XXVI. Actinobacteria phyl. nov. In: Goodfellow M, Kämpfer P, H.-J. B, Trujillo ME, Suzuki K, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 5, Springer, New York, 2012, p. 33-34.
Goodfellow et al. (2012) assigned the class Acidimicrobiia Norris 2013 to this phylum.Publication:
Norris PR. Class II. Acidimicrobiia class. nov. In: Goodfellow M, Kämpfer P, H.-J. B, Trujillo ME, K.-I. S, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 5 (The Actinobacteria), part B, Springer, New York, 2012, p. 1968.
Goodfellow et al. (2012) assigned the class Coriobacteriia König 2013 to this phylum.Publication:
König H. Class III. Coriobacteriia class nov. In: Goodfellow M, Kämpfer P, H.-J. B, Trujillo ME, K.-I. S, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 5 (The Actinobacteria), part B, Springer, New York, 2012, p. 1975.
Goodfellow et al. (2012) assigned the class Nitriliruptoria Ludwig et al. 2013 to this phylum.Publication:
Ludwig W, Euzéby J, Whitman WB. Class IV. Nitriliruptoria class nov. In: Goodfellow M, Kämpfer P, H.-J. B, Trujillo ME, K.-I. S, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 5 (The Actinobacteria), part B, Springer, New York, 2012, p. 2000-2001.
Goodfellow et al. (2012) assigned the class Rubrobacteria Suzuki 2013 to this phylum.Publication:
Suzuki K-i. Class V. Rubrobacteria class. nov. In: Goodfellow M, Kämpfer P, H.-J. B, Trujillo ME, K.-I. S, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 5 (The Actinobacteria), part B, Springer, New York, 2012, p. 2004-2005.
Goodfellow et al. (2012) assigned the class Thermoleophilia Suzuki and Whitman 2013 to this phylum.Publication:
Suzuki K-i, Whitman WB. Class VI. Thermoleophilia class. nov. In: Goodfellow M, Kämpfer P, H.-J. B, Trujillo ME, K.-I. S, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 5 (The Actinobacteria), part B, Springer, New York, 2012, p. 2010.
Merino et al. (2020) assigned the order "Candidatus Hakubellales" corrig. Merino et al. 2020 to this phylum.Publication:
Merino N, Kawai M, Boyd ES, Colman DR, McGlynn SE, Nealson KH, Kurokawa K, Hongoh Y. Single-Cell Genomics of Novel Actinobacteria With the Wood-Ljungdahl Pathway Discovered in a Serpentinizing System. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:1031.
Neuenschwander et al. (2018) assigned the order "Candidatus Nanopelagicales" Neuenschwander et al. 2018 to this phylum.Publication:
Neuenschwander SM, Ghai R, Pernthaler J, Salcher MM. Microdiversification in genome-streamlined ubiquitous freshwater Actinobacteria. ISME J 2018; 12:185-198.
Strassert et al. (2012) assigned the genus "Candidatus Ancillula" Strassert et al. 2012 to this phylum.Publication:
Strassert JF, Kohler T, Wienemann TH, Ikeda-Ohtsubo W, Faivre N, Franckenberg S, Plarre R, Radek R, Brune A. 'Candidatus Ancillula trichonymphae', a novel lineage of endosymbiotic Actinobacteria in termite gut flagellates of the genus Trichonympha. Environ Microbiol 2012; 14:3259-3270.
This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Acfinobacteria"; "Acinobacteria"; "Acitinobacteria"; "Aclinobacteria"; "Acnitobacteria"; "Acnnobacteria"; "Acrimbacteria"; "Actenobacteria"; "Actiizobacteria"; "Actinbacteria"; "Actinibacteria"; "Actinobacteiia"; "Actinobactrria"; "Actinobacttria"; "Actinohacteria"; "Actinombacteria"; "Actionbacteria"; "Actionobacteria"; "Actnobacteria"; "Adinobacteria"; "Antinobacteria".
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