Etymology:
Gem.ma’ti.mo.na.det’es. N.L. fem. n.Gemmatimonas, type genus of the type order of the phylum; N.L. fem. pl. n. monadetes, incorrect plural of monas; N.L. fem. pl. n.Gemmatimonadetes, phylum of the genus Gemmatimonas (sic)
Original publication:
Zhang H, Sekiguchi Y, Hanada S, Hugenholtz P, Kim H, Kamagata Y, Nakamura K. Gemmatimonas aurantiaca gen. nov., sp. nov., a gram-negative, aerobic, polyphosphate-accumulating micro-organism, the first cultured representative of the new bacterial phylum Gemmatimonadetes phyl. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1155-1163.
Zhang et al. (2003) assigned this phylum to the domain "Bacteria" Woese et al. 1990.Publication:
Zhang H, Sekiguchi Y, Hanada S, Hugenholtz P, Kim H, Kamagata Y, Nakamura K. Gemmatimonas aurantiaca gen. nov., sp. nov., a gram-negative, aerobic, polyphosphate-accumulating micro-organism, the first cultured representative of the new bacterial phylum Gemmatimonadetes phyl. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1155-1163.
Pascual et al. (2016) assigned the class Longimicrobia Pascual et al. 2016 to this phylum.Publication:
Pascual J, Garcia-Lopez M, Bills GF, Genilloud O. Longimicrobium terrae gen. nov., sp. nov., an oligotrophic bacterium of the under-represented phylum Gemmatimonadetes isolated through a system of miniaturized diffusion chambers. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1976-1985.
Pascual et al. (2016) assigned the class Longimicrobiia corrig. Pascual et al. 2016 to this phylum.Publication:
Pascual J, Garcia-Lopez M, Bills GF, Genilloud O. Longimicrobium terrae gen. nov., sp. nov., an oligotrophic bacterium of the under-represented phylum Gemmatimonadetes isolated through a system of miniaturized diffusion chambers. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1976-1985.
Zhang et al. (2003) assigned the class Gemmatimonadetes Zhang et al. 2003 to this phylum.Publication:
Zhang H, Sekiguchi Y, Hanada S, Hugenholtz P, Kim H, Kamagata Y, Nakamura K. Gemmatimonas aurantiaca gen. nov., sp. nov., a gram-negative, aerobic, polyphosphate-accumulating micro-organism, the first cultured representative of the new bacterial phylum Gemmatimonadetes phyl. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1155-1163.
This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Gammatimonadetes"; "Gemmanimonadetes"; "Gemmatimonbacteria"; "Gemmatinomadetes"; "Gemmatiomadetes"; "Gemmatiomonadetes"; "Gennatimonadetes".
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