Three Novel Species with Peptidoglycan Cell Walls form the New Genus Lacunisphaera gen. nov. in the Family Opitutaceae of the Verrucomicrobial Subdivision 4

Characterization of the first cultured representative of Verrucomicrobia subdivision 5 indicates the proposal of a novel phylum

(2016) Stefan Spring et al.   ISME Journal

Pathogenic Chlamydia Lack a Classical Sacculus but Synthesize a Narrow, Mid-cell Peptidoglycan Ring, Regulated by MreB, for Cell Division

(2016) George Liechti et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Evolutionary Cell Biology of Division Mode in the Bacterial Planctomycetes-Verrucomicrobia- Chlamydiae Superphylum

(2016) Elena Rivas-Marín et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Stable-Isotope Probing Identifies Uncultured Planctomycetes as Primary Degraders of a Complex Heteropolysaccharide in Soil

(2015) Xiaoqing Wang et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

CheckM: assessing the quality of microbial genomes recovered from isolates, single cells, and metagenomes

(2015) Donovan H. Parks et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Luteolibacter arcticus sp. nov., isolated from high Arctic tundra soil, and emended description of the genus Luteolibacter

(2015) MyongChol Kim et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

IslandViewer 3: more flexible, interactive genomic island discovery, visualization and analysis: Figure 1.

(2015) Bhavjinder K. Dhillon et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Structural characterization of muropeptides fromChlamydia trachomatispeptidoglycan by mass spectrometry resolves “chlamydial anomaly”

(2015) Mathanraj Packiam et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Past and future species definitions for Bacteria and Archaea

(2015) Ramon Rosselló-Móra et al.   SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Planctomycetes do possess a peptidoglycan cell wall

(2015) Olga Jeske et al.   Nature Communications

Anammox Planctomycetes have a peptidoglycan cell wall

(2015) Muriel C.F. van Teeseling et al.   Nature Communications

Expanding the Verrucomicrobial Methanotrophic World: Description of Three Novel Species of Methylacidimicrobium gen. nov.

(2014) Muriel C. F. van Teeseling et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Prokka: rapid prokaryotic genome annotation

(2014) T. Seemann   BIOINFORMATICS

High Phylogenetic Diversity of Glycosyl Hydrolase Family 10 and 11 Xylanases in the Sediment of Lake Dabusu in China

(2014) Guozeng Wang et al.   PLoS One

Prosthecobacter algae sp. nov., isolated from activated sludge using algal metabolites

(2013) J. Lee et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

The ABCD’s of β-lactamase nomenclature

(2013) Karen Bush   JOURNAL OF INFECTION AND CHEMOTHERAPY

A new metabolic cell-wall labelling method reveals peptidoglycan in Chlamydia trachomatis

(2013) G. W. Liechti et al.   NATURE

Discovery of chlamydial peptidoglycan reveals bacteria with murein sacculi but without FtsZ

(2013) Martin Pilhofer et al.   Nature Communications

SINA: Accurate high-throughput multiple sequence alignment of ribosomal RNA genes

(2012) Elmar Pruesse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Identification of Proteins Likely To Be Involved in Morphogenesis, Cell Division, and Signal Transduction in Planctomycetes by Comparative Genomics

(2012) Christian Jogler et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Proteinortho: Detection of (Co-)orthologs in large-scale analysis

(2011) Marcus Lechner et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

BLAST Ring Image Generator (BRIG): simple prokaryote genome comparisons

(2011) Nabil-Fareed Alikhan et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Genome Sequence of the Verrucomicrobium Opitutus terrae PB90-1, an Abundant Inhabitant of Rice Paddy Soil Ecosystems

(2011) M. W. J. van Passel et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Beyond the bacterium: planctomycetes challenge our concepts of microbial structure and function

(2011) John A. Fuerst et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

IMG: the integrated microbial genomes database and comparative analysis system

(2011) V. M. Markowitz et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

PHAST: A Fast Phage Search Tool

(2011) Y. Zhou et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Cerasicoccus maritimus sp. nov. and Cerasicoccus frondis sp. nov., two peptidoglycan-less marine verrucomicrobial species, and description of Verrucomicrobia phyl. nov., nom. rev.

(2010) Jaewoo Yoon et al.   JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Complete genome sequence of Coraliomargarita akajimensis type strain (04OKA010-24T)

(2010) Konstantinos Mavromatis et al.   Standards in Genomic Sciences

Phylum Verrucomicrobia representatives share a compartmentalized cell plan with members of bacterial phylum Planctomycetes

(2009) Kuo-Chang Lee et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Characterization and Evolution of Cell Division and Cell Wall Synthesis Genes in the Bacterial Phyla Verrucomicrobia, Lentisphaerae, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes and Phylogenetic Comparison with rRNA Genes

(2008) M. Pilhofer et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY