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Phylum "Candidatus Odinarchaeota"
Name: "Candidatus Odinarchaeota" Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al. 2017
Etymology: O.din.ar.chae.o’ta. N.L. neut. n. Odinarchaeum, a Candidatus genus name; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ota, ending to denote a phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n. Odinarchaeota, the Candidatus Odinarchaeum phylum
Pronunciation (Latin), gender: o-din-ar-kha͡e-O-ta, neuter
Type genus: "Candidatus Odinarchaeum" Tamarit et al. 2022
Effective publication:
Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka K, Caceres EF, Saw JH, Backstrom D, Juzokaite L, Vancaester E, Seitz KW, Anantharaman K, Starnawski P, Kjeldsen KU, et al. Asgard archaea illuminate the origin of eukaryotic cellular complexity. Nature 2017; 541:353-358. 
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IJSEM list:
Oren A, Göker M. Candidatus list no. 5. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5821.
Nomenclatural status: not validly published
Nomenclatural pro-status: pro-validly published under the ICNP
Correct name: Promethearchaeota Imachi et al. 2024
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Synonyms:
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Name Kind "Candidatus Lokiarchaeia" Spang et al. 2015 heterotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling "Candidatus Lokiarchaeia" Bulzu et al. 2019 heterotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling and not pro-validly published "Candidatus Hermodarchaeota" Liu et al. 2021 heterotypic synonym, pro-validly published under the ICNP "Candidatus Sifarchaeota" Farag et al. 2021 heterotypic synonym, pro-validly published under the ICNP "Candidatus Borrarchaeota" Liu et al. 2021 heterotypic synonym, pro-validly published under the ICNP "Candidatus Wukongarchaeota" Liu et al. 2021 heterotypic synonym, pro-validly published under the ICNP "Candidatus Baldrarchaeota" Liu et al. 2021 heterotypic synonym, pro-validly published under the ICNP Promethearchaeota Imachi et al. 2024 heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP "Candidatus Njordarchaeota" Xie et al. 2022 heterotypic synonym, pro-validly published under the ICNP "Candidatus Lokiarchaeota" corrig. Spang et al. 2015 heterotypic synonym, pro-validly published under the ICNP
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Notes:
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🧕 Liu et al. (2021) assigned this phylum to the superphylum "Asgard" Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al. 2017.
Publication:
Liu Y, Makarova KS, Huang WC, Wolf YI, Nikolskaya AN, Zhang X, Cai M, Zhang CJ, Xu W, Luo Z, et al. Expanded diversity of Asgard archaea and their relationships with eukaryotes. Nature 2021; 593:553-557. 🇺🇸
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🧕 Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al. (2017) assigned this phylum to the domain "Archaea" Woese et al. 1990.
Publication:
Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka K, Caceres EF, Saw JH, Backstrom D, Juzokaite L, Vancaester E, Seitz KW, Anantharaman K, Starnawski P, Kjeldsen KU, et al. Asgard archaea illuminate the origin of eukaryotic cellular complexity. Nature 2017; 541:353-358. 🇸🇪
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🧕 Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al. (2017) assigned this phylum to the superphylum "Asgard" Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al. 2017.
Publication:
Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka K, Caceres EF, Saw JH, Backstrom D, Juzokaite L, Vancaester E, Seitz KW, Anantharaman K, Starnawski P, Kjeldsen KU, et al. Asgard archaea illuminate the origin of eukaryotic cellular complexity. Nature 2017; 541:353-358. 🇸🇪
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🧒 Tamarit et al. (2022) assigned the class "Candidatus Odinarchaeia" Tamarit et al. 2022 to this phylum.
Publication:
Tamarit D, Caceres EF, Krupovic M, Nijland R, Eme L, Robinson NP, Ettema TJG. A closed Candidatus Odinarchaeum chromosome exposes Asgard archaeal viruses. Nat Microbiol 2022; 7:948-952. 🇳🇱
- ❗ "Candidatus Odinarchaeota" is the pro-correct name instead if this phylum is regarded as a separate phylum (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another phylum whose name is validly published and legitimate or pro-validly published and pro-legitimate and not rejected and has priority or pro-priority).
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🧕 Liu et al. (2021) assigned this phylum to the superphylum "Asgard" Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al. 2017.
Publication:
Liu Y, Makarova KS, Huang WC, Wolf YI, Nikolskaya AN, Zhang X, Cai M, Zhang CJ, Xu W, Luo Z, et al. Expanded diversity of Asgard archaea and their relationships with eukaryotes. Nature 2021; 593:553-557.
Parent taxon: Promethearchaeati Imachi et al. 2024
Assigned by:
LPSN automated production system. The following publication is only one of the sources consulted.
It may or may not mention this taxon name. —
Imachi H, Nobu MK, Kato S, Takaki Y, Miyazaki M, Miyata M, Ogawara M, Saito Y, Sakai S, Tahara YO, et al. Promethearchaeum syntrophicum gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, obligately syntrophic archaeon, the first isolate of the lineage 'Asgard' archaea, and proposal of the new archaeal phylum Promethearchaeota phyl. nov. and kingdom Promethearchaeati regn. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6435. 🇯🇵
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