Species "Candidatus Nucleicoccus kirbyi"

Name: "Candidatus Nucleicoccus kirbyi" corrig. Sato et al. 2014

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: kir’by.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. kirbyi, named after Harold Kirby, the microbiologist who discovered the bacteria of Trichonympha protists in termites

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … KIR-by-i, masculine

Nomenclatural type: RsTaN-K2

16S rRNA gene: AB826705 Analysetree FASTA download

Effective publication: Sato T, Kuwahara H, Fujita K, Noda S, Kihara K, Yamada A, Ohkuma M, Hongoh Y. Intranuclear verrucomicrobial symbionts and evidence of lateral gene transfer to the host protist in the termite gut. ISME J 2014; 8:1008-1019. 🇯🇵

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

Nomenclatural pro-status: pro-validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: pro-correct name

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Nucleicoccus" corrig. Sato et al. 2014

Assigned by: Sato T, Kuwahara H, Fujita K, Noda S, Kihara K, Yamada A, Ohkuma M, Hongoh Y. Intranuclear verrucomicrobial symbionts and evidence of lateral gene transfer to the host protist in the termite gut. ISME J 2014; 8:1008-1019. 🇯🇵

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Record number: 22165

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