Name: "Candidatus Endomicrobium embiratermitis" Mies and Brune 2024

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: em.bi.ra.ter’mi.tis. N.L. gen. masc. n. embiratermitis, of Embiratermes, referring to the termite host genus

Gender: neuter

Nomenclatural type: Emb289P3_bin85; Emb289P3_bin85TS; GCA_009781315.1TS

Original publication: Mies US, Herve V, Kropp T, Platt K, Sillam-Dusses D, Sobotnik J, Brune A. Genome reduction and horizontal gene transfer in the evolution of Endomicrobia-rise and fall of an intracellular symbiosis with termite gut flagellates. mBio 2024; 15:e0082624.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Nomenclatural pro-status: not pro-validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not pro-correct name)

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Endomicrobium" Stingl et al. 2005

Assigned by: Mies US, Herve V, Kropp T, Platt K, Sillam-Dusses D, Sobotnik J, Brune A. Genome reduction and horizontal gene transfer in the evolution of Endomicrobia-rise and fall of an intracellular symbiosis with termite gut flagellates. mBio 2024; 15:e0082624.

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Record number: 59410
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