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Deltaproteobacteria

Taxonomy ID: 28221 (for references in articles please use NCBI:txid28221)
current name
Deltaproteobacteria Kuever et al. 2006 emend. Hahn et al. 2017
includes:
Dissimilatory sulfate or sulfur reducers
Sulfate- or sulfur-reducing dissimilatory bacteria
Sulfate-reducing or sulfur-reducing dissimilatory bacteria
NCBI BLAST name: d-proteobacteria
Rank: class
Genetic code: Translation table 11 (Bacterial, Archaeal and Plant Plastid)
Other names:
heterotypic synonym
Proteobacteria delta subdivision
heterotypic synonym
Purple bacteria, delta subdivision
heterotypic synonym
delta proteobacteria
heterotypic synonym
delta subdivision
heterotypic synonym
delta subgroup
heterotypic synonym
"Deltabacteria" Cavalier-Smith 1992
heterotypic synonym
Deltabacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002
blast name
d-proteobacteria
Lineage( full )
cellular organisms; Bacteria; delta/epsilon subdivisions
   Entrez records   
Database name Subtree links Direct links
Nucleotide 127,148 5
Protein 580,340 -
Genome 289 -
Popset 956 905
Conserved Domains 28 28
GEO Datasets 39 -
PubMed Central 5,776 5,693
SRA Experiments 238 21
Protein Clusters 48,999 55
Identical Protein Groups 810,051 -
BioProject 174 12
BioSample 1,778 30
Assembly 868 -
Taxonomy 1,291 1

Comments and References:

Cavalier-Smith T (2002)
Cavalier-Smith, T. "The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification." Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2002) 52(1):7-76.
Hahn MW et al. (2017)
Hahn, M.W., Schmidt, J., Koll, U., Rohde, M., Verbarg, S., Pitt, A., Nakai, R., Naganuma, T., and Lang, E. "Silvanigrella aquatica gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a freshwater lake, description of Silvanigrellaceae fam. nov. and Silvanigrellales ord. nov., reclassification of the order Bdellovibrionales in the class Oligoflexia, reclassification of the families Bacteriovoracaceae and Halobacteriovoraceae in the new order Bacteriovoracales ord. nov., and reclassification of the family Pseudobacteriovoracaceae in the order Oligoflexales." Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2017) 67(8):2555-2568.
Kuever J et al. (2005)
Kuever, J., Rainey, F.A., and Widdel, F. "Class IV. Deltaproteobacteria class. nov." In: D.J. Brenner,, N.R. Krieg, J.T. Staley, and G.M. Garrity (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 922. [No PubMed record available.]
Oren A et al. (2016)
Oren, A., Parte, A., and Garrity, G.M. "Implementation of Rule 8 of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes for the renaming of classes. Request for an Opinion." Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2016) 66(10):4296-4298.
VALIDATION LIST No. 107 (2006), other link:https://ijs.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.64188-0
Validation List No. 107. "List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published." Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2006) 56:1-6. [Erratum: Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2006) 56:677.]
Waite DW et al. (2020)
Waite, D.W., Chuvochina, M., Pelikan, C., Parks, D.H., Yilmaz, P., Wagner, M., Loy, A., Naganuma, T., Nakai, R., Whitman, W.B., Hahn, M.W., Kuever, J., and Hugenholtz, P. "Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting major functional capabilities." Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2020) 70(11):5972-6016.

External Information Resources (NCBI LinkOut)

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Deltaproteobacteria taxonomy/phylogenetic Ocean Biogeographic Information System
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Reference: How to cite this resource - Schoch CL, et al. NCBI Taxonomy: a comprehensive update on curation, resources and tools. Database (Oxford). 2020: baaa062. PubMed: 32761142 PMC: PMC7408187.


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