Name: Methylovirgula ligni Vorob'ev et al. 2009

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: lig’ni. L. gen. neut. n. ligni, of wood, referring to the isolation of known strains from wood material

Gender: feminine

Type strain: BW863; DSM 19998; NCIMB 14408

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: FM252034 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Vorob'ev AV, de Boer W, Folman LB, Bodelier PL, Doronina NV, Suzina NE, Trotsenko YA, Dedysh SN. Methylovirgula ligni gen. nov., sp. nov., an obligately acidophilic, facultatively methylotrophic bacterium with a highly divergent mxaF gene. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2538-2545.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:3-4.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Methylovirgula Vorob'ev et al. 2009. Publication: Vorob'ev AV, de Boer W, Folman LB, Bodelier PL, Doronina NV, Suzina NE, Trotsenko YA, Dedysh SN. Methylovirgula ligni gen. nov., sp. nov., an obligately acidophilic, facultatively methylotrophic bacterium with a highly divergent mxaF gene. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2538-2545.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project. 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: Methylovirgula Vorob'ev et al. 2009

Assigned by: Vorob'ev AV, de Boer W, Folman LB, Bodelier PL, Doronina NV, Suzina NE, Trotsenko YA, Dedysh SN. Methylovirgula ligni gen. nov., sp. nov., an obligately acidophilic, facultatively methylotrophic bacterium with a highly divergent mxaF gene. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2538-2545.

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