Name: "Candidatus Competibacter denitrificans" McIlroy et al. 2014

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: de.ni.tri’fi.cans. L. prep. de, away from; L. neut. n. nitrum, nitrate; N.L. v. denitrifico, to denitrify; N.L. part. adj. denitrificans, denitrifying

Gender: masculine

Type strain: Run_A_D11

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16S rRNA gene: CBTJ020000028 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: McIlroy SJ, Albertsen M, Andresen EK, Saunders AM, Kristiansen R, Stokholm-Bjerregaard M, Nielsen KL, Nielsen PH. 'Candidatus Competibacter'-lineage genomes retrieved from metagenomes reveal functional metabolic diversity. ISME J 2014; 8:613-624.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM, Parker CT, Chuvochina M, Trujillo ME. Candidatus list no. 1. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3956-4042.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Competibacter" Crocetti et al. 2002

Assigned by: McIlroy SJ, Albertsen M, Andresen EK, Saunders AM, Kristiansen R, Stokholm-Bjerregaard M, Nielsen KL, Nielsen PH. 'Candidatus Competibacter'-lineage genomes retrieved from metagenomes reveal functional metabolic diversity. ISME J 2014; 8:613-624.

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Record number: 2705