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Bacteroides fragilis

Taxonomy ID: 817 (for references in articles please use NCBI:txid817)
current name
Bacteroides fragilis (Veillon and Zuber 1898) Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980) in [Skerman VBD et al. (1980)]
type strain of Bacteroides fragilis: ATCC:25285, CCUG:4856, CIP:77.16, DSM:2151, JCM:11019, BCCM/LMG:10263, NCTC:9343
basionym:
"Bacillus fragilis" Veillon and Zuber 1898, effective name in [Veillon A & Zuber A (1898)]
homotypic synonym:
Bacteroides fragilis (Veillon and Zuber 1898) Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hahnke et al. 2016, emended name in [Hahnke RL et al. (2016)]
homotypic synonym:
"Fusiformis fragilis" Topley and Wilson 1929, effective name 1)
"Ristella fragilis" Prévot 1938, effective name 2)
"Pseudobacterium fragilis" Krasil'nikov 1949, effective name 3)
includes:
Bacteroides sp. 2_1_16
Bacteroides sp. 2_1_56FAA
NCBI BLAST name: CFB group bacteria
Rank: species
Genetic code: Translation table 11 (Bacterial, Archaeal and Plant Plastid)
Other names:
heterotypic synonym
"Bacteroides inaequalis" Eggerth and Gagnon 1933, effective name 4)
heterotypic synonym
"Bacteroides incommunis" Eggerth and Gagnon 1933, effective name 5)
heterotypic synonym
"Bacteroides uncatus" Eggerth and Gagnon 1933, effective name 6)
heterotypic synonym
"Ristella incommunis" (Eggerth and Gagnon 1933) Prévot 1938, effective name 7)
heterotypic synonym
"Ristella uncata" (Eggerth and Gagnon 1933) Prévot 1938, effective name 8)
heterotypic synonym
"Sphaerophorus inaequalis" (Eggerth and Gagnon 1933) Prévot 1938, effective name 9)
heterotypic synonym
"Pseudobacterium inaequalis" (Eggerth and Gagnon 1933) Krasil'nikov 1949, effective name 10)
heterotypic synonym
"Pseudobacterium incommunis" (Eggerth and Gagnon 1933) Krasil'nikov 1949, effective name 11)
heterotypic synonym
"Pseudobacterium uncatum" (Eggerth and Gagnon 1933) Krasil'nikov 1949, effective name 12)
heterotypic synonym
"Sphaerophorus intermedius" Bergan and Hovig 1968, effective name 13)
Lineage( full )
cellular organisms; Bacteria; FCB group; Bacteroidota/Chlorobiota group; Bacteroidota; Bacteroidia; Bacteroidales; Bacteroidaceae; Bacteroides
   Entrez records   
Database name Subtree links Direct links Links from type
Nucleotide 96,584 64,176 202
Protein 1,684,795 1,260,995 -
Structure 141 43 -
Genome 3 1 -
Popset 41 41 -
Conserved Domains 5 2 -
GEO Datasets 165 63 -
PubMed Central 13,388 13,388 -
Gene 26,957 8,624 -
SRA Experiments 2,665 2,443 -
Protein Clusters 5,173 5,173 -
Identical Protein Groups 379,653 335,842 -
BioProject 313 196 -
BioSample 4,803 4,564 109
Assembly 1,176 1,074 5
PubChem BioAssay 271 268 -
Taxonomy 91 1 -

Notes:

Comments and References:

Skerman VBD et al. (1980)
Skerman, V.B.D., McGowan, V., and Sneath, P.H.A. "Approved Lists of Bacterial Names." Intl. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1980) 30(1):225-420.
Veillon A & Zuber A (1898)
Veillon, A., and Zuber, A. "Recherches sur quelques microbes strictement anaérobies et leur rôle en pathologie." Archives de Medecine Experimentale et d'Anatomie Pathologique (1898) 10:517-545. [No PubMed record available.]
Hahnke RL et al. (2016), doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.02003, PubMed: abstract
Hahnke, R.L., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., García-López, M., Mukherjee, S., Huntemann, M., Ivanova, N.N., Woyke, T., Kyrpides, N.C., Klenk, H.-P., and Göker, M. "Genome-based taxonomic classification of Bacteroidetes." Front. Microbiol. (2016) 7:2003.
image:Bacteroides fragilis
Castellani A & Chalmers AJ (1919)
Castellani, A., and Chalmers, A.J. Manual of Tropical Medicine, 3rd ed. (1919). Williams Wood and Co., New York. [No PubMed abstract available.]
Cato EP & Johnson JL (1976)
Cato, E.P., and Johnson, J.L. "Reinstatement of species rank for Bacteroides fragilis, B. ovatus, B. distasonis, B. thetaiotaomicron, and B. vulgatus: Designation of neotype strains for Bacteroides fragilis (Veillon and Zuber) Castellani and Chalmers and Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron (Distaso) Castellani and Chalmers." Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1976) 26:230-237. [No PubMed record available.]
Eggerth AH & Gagnon BH (1933), other link:http://jb.asm.org/content/25/4/389.long
Eggerth, A.H., and Gagnon, B.H. "The bacteroides of human feces." J. Bacteriol. (1933) 25:389-413. [No abstract available.]
Krasil'nikov NA (1949)
Krasil'nikov, N.A.: Guide to the Bacteria and Actinomycetes [Opredelitelv Bakterii i Actinomicetov], (1949). Akad. Nauk SSSR, Moscow, pp. 1-830. [No PubMed record available.]
List of Changes in Taxonomic Opinion No. 26 (2017)
"Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM." Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2017) 67(7):2081-2086.
Prévot AR (1938)
Prévot, A.R. "Etudes de systematique bacterienne." Ann. Inst. Pasteur (Paris) (1938) 60:285-307. [No PubMed record available.]
Topley WWC & Wilson GS (1929)
Topley, W.W.C., and Wilson, G.S. The Principles of Bacteriology and Immunity, 1st ed. (1929) Edward Arnold and Co., London, pp. 1-587. [No PubMed record available.]
Veillon A & Zuber A (1898)
Veillon, A., and Zuber, A. "Recherches sur quelques microbes strictement anaérobies et leur rôle en pathologie." Archives de Medecine Experimentale et d'Anatomie Pathologique (1898) 10:517-545. [No PubMed record available.]

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