Deferribacteraceae

The Deferribacteraceae are a family of gram-negative bacteria which make energy by anaerobic respiration.^[2]

Deferribacteraceae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Deferribacterota Garrity and Holt 2021[1]
Class:	Deferribacteres Huber and Stetter 2002
Order:	Deferribacterales Huber and Stetter 2002
Family:	Deferribacteraceae Huber and Stetter 2002
Genera
Calditerrivibrio Deferrivibrio Denitrovibrio Deferribacter Flexistipes Geovibrio Limisalsivibrio Mucispirillum Petrothermobacter Seleniivibrio
Synonyms
Deferribacterota: "Deferribacteres" Garrity and Holt 2001 "Deferribacterota" Whitman et al. 2018 "Deferribacteraeota" Oren et al. 2015 Deferribacteres: Ferrobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002 "Deferribacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2020 Deferribacterales: Geovibriales (sic) Cavalier-Smith 2002

Description

Deferribacteraceae are rod-shaped, although the rods may be straight or bent. They are gram-negative. Deferribacteraceae perform anaerobic respiration using iron, manganese, or nitrate. They can also produce energy by fermentation. The type genus of the family is Deferribacter.^[2]

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LSPN) ^{[3] [4]}

• Phylum Deferribacterota Garrity and Holt 2021
  • Class Deferribacteres Huber & Stetter 2002
    • Order Deferribacterales Huber & Stetter 2002
      • Genus ?Petrothermobacter Tamazawa et al. 2017
      • Family Calditerrivibrionaceae Spring et al. 2022
      • Family Deferribacteraceae Huber & Stetter 2002
      • Family Deferrivibrionaceae Zavarzina et al. 2023
      • Family Flexistipitaceae Spring et al. 2022
      • Family Geovibrionaceae Cavalier-Smith 2020
      • Family Mucispirillaceae Spring et al. 2022

16S rRNA based LTP_08_2023[5][6][7]	120 single copy marker proteins based GTDB 08-RS214[8][9][10]
Deferribacteraceae Flexistipes Fiala et al. 2000 Deferribacter Greene et al. 1997 Mucispirillum Robertson et al. 2005 Calditerrivibrio Iino et al. 2008 Deferrivibrio Zavarzina et al. 2023 Petrothermobacter Tamazawa et al. 2017 Limisalsivibrio Spring et al. 2022 Geovibrio Caccavo et al. 2000 Denitrovibrio Myhr & Torsvik 2000 Seleniivibrio Rauschenbach et al. 2013	Deferribacterales Flexistipitaceae Flexistipes Calditerrivibrionaceae Calditerrivibrio Deferrivibrionaceae Deferrivibrio Deferribacteraceae Deferribacter Mucispirillaceae Mucispirillum Geovibrionaceae Limisalsivibrio Geovibrio Denitrovibrio Seleniivibrio

History

The family was first described in 2001 in order to hold the genera Deferribacter, Flexistipes, and Geovibrio.^[2]

See also

• List of bacterial orders
• List of bacteria genera

References

1. Oren A, Garrity GM (2021). "Valid publication of the names of forty-two phyla of prokaryotes". Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 71 (10): 5056. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.005056. PMID 34694987. S2CID 239887308.
2. Huber, H., and Stetter, K.O. "Family I. Deferribacteraceae fam. nov." In: Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd ed., vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria) (D.R. Boone and R.W. Castenholz, eds.), Springer-Verlag, New York (2001). pp. 465-466.
3. See the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature. Data extracted from the "Deferribacteres". Retrieved 2013-03-20.
4. See the NCBI webpage on Deferribacteres Data extracted from the "NCBI Taxonomy Browser". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2013-03-20.
5. "The LTP". Retrieved 20 November 2023.
6. "LTP_all tree in newick format". Retrieved 20 November 2023.
7. "LTP_08_2023 Release Notes" (PDF). Retrieved 20 November 2023.
8. "GTDB release 08-RS214". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
9. "bac120_r214.sp_label". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
10. "Taxon History". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2023.