Verrucomicrobia é um filo de bactérias recém descrito. Contém apenas duas famílias Verrucomicrobiaceae e Opitutaceae. Este filo contém dois filos-irmãos, Chlamydiae e Lentisphaerae.[1]
Thomas Cavalier-Smith postulou que o Verrucomicrobia pertence ao clado Planctobacteria no amplo grupo dos Gracilicutes.[2] Análises posteriores de 16S rRNA corroboraram com este posicionamento.[3]
Referências
- Cho J, Vergin K, Morris R, Giovannoni S (2004). «Lentisphaera araneosa gen. nov., sp. nov, a transparent exopolymer producing marine bacterium, and the description of a novel bacterial phylum, Lentisphaerae». Environmental Microbiology. 6 (6): 611–21. PMID 15142250. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2004.00614.x
- CAVALIER-SMITH, T. (2006). Rooting the tree of life by transition analyses. Biology Direct 1: 19. doi:10.1186/1745-6150-1-19
- Wagner M, Horn M: The Planctomycetes, Verrucomicrobia, Chlamydiae and sister phyla comprise a superphylum with biotechnological and medical relevance. Curr Opin Biotechnol 2006, 17(3):241-249
Wikiwand in your browser!
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.