TY - JOUR
T1 - Complete genome sequence of the termite hindgut bacterium Spirochaeta coccoides type strain (SPN1T), reclassification in the genus Sphaerochaeta as Sphaerochaeta coccoides comb. nov. and emendations of the family Spirochaetaceae and the genus Sphaerochaeta
AU - Abt, Birte
AU - Han, Cliff
AU - Scheuner, Carmen
AU - Lu, Megan
AU - Lapidus, Alla
AU - Nolan, Matt
AU - Lucas, Susan
AU - Hammon, Nancy
AU - Deshpande, Shweta
AU - Cheng, Jan Fang
AU - Tapia, Roxanne
AU - Goodwin, Lynne A.
AU - Pitluck, Sam
AU - Liolios, Konstantinos
AU - Pagani, Ioanna
AU - Ivanova, Natalia
AU - Mavromatis, Konstantinos
AU - Mikhailova, Natalia
AU - Huntemann, Marcel
AU - Pati, Amrita
AU - Chen, Amy
AU - Palaniappan, Krishna
AU - Land, Miriam
AU - Hauser, Loren
AU - Brambilla, Evelyne Marie
AU - Rohde, Manfred
AU - Spring, Stefan
AU - Gronow, Sabine
AU - Göker, Markus
AU - Woyke, Tanja
AU - Bristow, James
AU - Eisen, Jonathan A
AU - Markowitz, Victor
AU - Hugenholtz, Philip
AU - Kyrpides, Nikos C.
AU - Klenk, Hans Peter
AU - Detter, John C.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Spirochaeta coccoides Dröge et al. 2006 is a member of the genus Spirochaeta Ehrenberg 1835, one of the oldest named genera within the Bacteria. S. coccoides is an obligately an-aerobic, Gram-negative, non-motile, spherical bacterium that was isolated from the hindgut contents of the termite Neotermes castaneus. The species is of interest because it may play an important role in the digestion of breakdown products from cellulose and hemicellulose in the termite gut. Here we provide a taxonomic re-evaluation for strain SPN1T, and based on physiological and genomic characteristics, we propose its reclassification as a novel species in the genus Sphaerochaeta, a recently published sister group of the Spirochaeta. The 2,227,296 bp long genome of strain SPN1T with its 1,866 protein-coding and 58 RNA genes is a part of the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea project.
AB - Spirochaeta coccoides Dröge et al. 2006 is a member of the genus Spirochaeta Ehrenberg 1835, one of the oldest named genera within the Bacteria. S. coccoides is an obligately an-aerobic, Gram-negative, non-motile, spherical bacterium that was isolated from the hindgut contents of the termite Neotermes castaneus. The species is of interest because it may play an important role in the digestion of breakdown products from cellulose and hemicellulose in the termite gut. Here we provide a taxonomic re-evaluation for strain SPN1T, and based on physiological and genomic characteristics, we propose its reclassification as a novel species in the genus Sphaerochaeta, a recently published sister group of the Spirochaeta. The 2,227,296 bp long genome of strain SPN1T with its 1,866 protein-coding and 58 RNA genes is a part of the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea project.
KW - Chemoorganotrophic
KW - Di- and oligosac-charide-degrading
KW - GEBA
KW - Gram-negative
KW - Mesophilic
KW - Non-motile
KW - Obligately anaerobic
KW - Sphaerochaeta
KW - Spirochaetaceae
KW - Termite hindgut
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U2 - 10.4056/sigs.2796069
DO - 10.4056/sigs.2796069
M3 - Article
C2 - 22768363
AN - SCOPUS:84863601275
VL - 6
SP - 194
EP - 209
JO - Environmental Microbiomes
JF - Environmental Microbiomes
SN - 1944-3277
IS - 2
ER -