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Species Rickettsia buchneri
Name: Rickettsia buchneri Kurtti et al. 2015
Etymology: buch’ne.ri. N.L. gen. masc. n. buchneri, of Buchner, named in honour of Dr Paul Buchner, a German biologist who made pioneering contributions to the identification of non-pathogenic tick endosymbionts that are transovarially transmitted
Pronunciation, gender: … BUKH-ne-ri, feminine
Type strain: ATCC VR-1814; DSM 29016; ISO-7
See detailed strain information at
Conduct genome-based taxonomy at
16S rRNA gene:
JFKF01000109
Analyse
FASTA
Valid publication:
Kurtti TJ, Felsheim RF, Burkhardt NY, Oliver JD, Heu CC, Munderloh UG. Rickettsia buchneri sp. nov., a rickettsial endosymbiont of the blacklegged tick Ixodes scapularis. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:965-970. 
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IJSEM list:
Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 65, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1701-1702.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: synonym (and not recommended for medical use)
Correct name: Rickettsia tamurae subsp. buchneri (Kurtti et al. 2015) Hördt et al. 2020
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Synonyms:
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Name Kind Rickettsia tamurae subsp. buchneri (Kurtti et al. 2015) Hördt et al. 2020 homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, distinct rank
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Notes:
- ❗ Rickettsia buchneri is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Rickettsia.
- 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
- 🎓 Name mentioned 24 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
- 🙅 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as a synonym of the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded risk group of the genus.
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🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Hördt et al. (2020).
Publication:
Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468. 🇩🇪
Parent taxon: Rickettsia da Rocha-Lima 1916 (Approved Lists 1980)
Assigned by:
Kurtti TJ, Felsheim RF, Burkhardt NY, Oliver JD, Heu CC, Munderloh UG. Rickettsia buchneri sp. nov., a rickettsial endosymbiont of the blacklegged tick Ixodes scapularis. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:965-970. 🇺🇸
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Record number: 792621
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