Species "Candidatus Nitrospira kreftii"

Name: "Candidatus Nitrospira kreftii" Sakoula et al. 2021

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: kreft’i.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. kreftii, of Kreft, in honor of Jan-Ulrich Kreft, a German computational biologist

Gender: feminine

Type strain: comreactor17

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Original publication: Sakoula D, Koch H, Frank J, Jetten MSM, van Kessel MAHJ, Lucker S. Enrichment and physiological characterization of a novel comammox Nitrospira indicates ammonium inhibition of complete nitrification. ISME J 2021; 15:1010-1024.

IJSEM list: Oren A. Candidatus list no. 4. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5545.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Nitrospira Watson et al. 1986

Assigned by: Sakoula D, Koch H, Frank J, Jetten MSM, van Kessel MAHJ, Lucker S. Enrichment and physiological characterization of a novel comammox Nitrospira indicates ammonium inhibition of complete nitrification. ISME J 2021; 15:1010-1024.

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Record number: 14633

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