The status Candidatus for uncultured taxa of Bacteria and Archaea: SWOT analysis

Sneathia vaginalis sp. nov. (Fusobacteriales, Leptotrichiaceae) as a replacement of the species ‘Sneathia amnii’ Harwich et al. 2012 and ‘Leptotrichia amnionii’ Shukla et al. 2002, and emended description of Sneathia Collins et al. 2001

(2021) Tobias Eisenberg et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Microbial Taxonomy Run Amok

(2021) Robert A. Sanford et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Candidatus List No. 2. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa

(2021) Aharon Oren et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

“Candidatus Laterigemmans baculatus” gen. nov. sp. nov., the first representative of rod shaped planctomycetes with lateral budding in the family Pirellulaceae

(2021) Dhanesh Kumar et al.   SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Extensive microbial diversity within the chicken gut microbiome revealed by metagenomics and culture

(2021) Rachel Gilroy et al.   PeerJ

Public discussion on a proposed revision of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes

(2021) Aharon Oren et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

A complete domain-to-species taxonomy for Bacteria and Archaea

(2020) Donovan H. Parks et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ

(2020) Aidan C. Parte et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Minutes of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes online discussion on the proposed use of gene sequences as type for naming of prokaryotes, and outcome of vote

(2020) Iain C. Sutcliffe et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa

(2020) Aharon Oren et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Genome Sequence Resource of ‘Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus’ strain 9PA from Brazil

(2020) Priscila a Silva et al.   PLANT DISEASE

Roadmap for naming uncultivated Archaea and Bacteria

(2020) Alison E. Murray et al.   Nature Microbiology

Dead on arrival: a postmortem assessment of “phylogenetic nomenclature”, 20+ years on

(2020) Andrew V.Z. Brower   CLADISTICS

Comparative genomics and pan-genomics of the Myxococcaceae, including a description of five novel species: Myxococcus eversor sp. nov., Myxococcus llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochensis sp. nov., Myxococcus vastator sp. nov., Pyxidicoccus caerfyrddinensis sp. nov. and Pyxidicoccus trucidator sp. nov

(2020) James Chambers et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Innovations to culturing the uncultured microbial majority

(2020) William H. Lewis et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Multiple origins of obligate nematode and insect symbionts by a clade of bacteria closely related to plant pathogens

(2020) Vincent G. Martinson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Candidatus Sulfurimonas marisnigri sp. nov. and Candidatus Sulfurimonas baltica sp. nov., thiotrophic manganese oxide reducing chemolithoautotrophs of the class Campylobacteria isolated from the pelagic redoxclines of the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea

(2020) Jan V. Henkel et al.   SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

The Next Million Names for Archaea and Bacteria

(2020) Mark J. Pallen et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

A collection of bacterial isolates from the pig intestine reveals functional and taxonomic diversity

(2020) David Wylensek et al.   Nature Communications

Extensive Unexplored Human Microbiome Diversity Revealed by Over 150,000 Genomes from Metagenomes Spanning Age, Geography, and Lifestyle

(2019) Edoardo Pasolli et al.   CELL

Antibiotics-induced monodominance of a novel gut bacterial order

(2019) Falk Hildebrand et al.   GUT

Sequence and cultivation study of Muribaculaceae reveals novel species, host preference, and functional potential of this yet undescribed family

(2019) Ilias Lagkouvardos et al.   Microbiome

Naming novel prokaryotic taxa discovered in the human gut

(2019) Aharon Oren   GUT

Towards standardisation of naming novel prokaryotic taxa in the age of high-throughput microbiology

(2019) Falk Hildebrand et al.   GUT

Elevation of Pectobacterium carotovorum subsp. odoriferum to species level as Pectobacterium odoriferum sp. nov., proposal of Pectobacterium brasiliense sp. nov. and Pectobacterium actinidiae sp. nov., emended description of Pectobacterium carotovorum and description of Pectobacterium versatile sp. nov., isolated from streams and symptoms on diverse plants

(2019) Perrine Portier et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Comparative Genomics Reveals Ecological and Evolutionary Insights into Sponge-Associated Thaumarchaeota

(2019) Shan Zhang et al.   mSystems

Isolation of Mycobacterium lepromatosis and Development of Molecular Diagnostic Assays to Distinguish M. leprae and M. lepromatosis

(2019) Rahul Sharma et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Major New Microbial Groups Expand Diversity and Alter our Understanding of the Tree of Life

(2018) Cindy J. Castelle et al.   CELL

Why are so many effectively published names of prokaryotic taxa never validated?

(2018) Aharon Oren et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Proposed minimal standards for the use of genome data for the taxonomy of prokaryotes

(2018) Jongsik Chun et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Quorum Sensing Modulates the Epibiotic-Parasitic Relationship Between Actinomyces odontolyticus and Its Saccharibacteria epibiont, a Nanosynbacter lyticus Strain, TM7x

(2018) Joseph K. Bedree et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

A plea for linguistic accuracy – also for Candidatus taxa

(2017) Aharon Oren   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Uncultivated microbes in need of their own taxonomy

(2017) Konstantinos T Konstantinidis et al.   ISME Journal

Explanation of the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing and its implication for microbiology

(2017) David Smith et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Recovery of nearly 8,000 metagenome-assembled genomes substantially expands the tree of life

(2017) Donovan H. Parks et al.   Nature Microbiology

International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes

(2015) Charles T Parker et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Twenty years of bacterial genome sequencing

(2015) Nicholas J. Loman et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Challenging the anthropocentric emphasis on phenotypic testing in prokaryotic species descriptions: rip it up and start again

(2015) Iain C. Sutcliffe   Frontiers in Genetics

Cultivation of a human-associated TM7 phylotype reveals a reduced genome and epibiotic parasitic lifestyle

(2014) Xuesong He et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Romance of the three domains: how cladistics transformed the classification of cellular organisms

(2013) Chi-Chun Ho et al.   Protein & Cell

Time to recognise that mitochondria are bacteria?

(2010) Mark J. Pallen   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Problems with "Procaryote"

(2009) N. R. Pace   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

A NewMycobacteriumSpecies Causing Diffuse Lepromatous Leprosy

(2008) Xiang Y. Han et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PATHOLOGY