Proposal of <i>Patescibacterium danicum</i> gen. nov., sp. nov. in the ubiquitous bacterial phylum <i>Patescibacteriota</i> phyl. nov.

ABSTRACT: Candidatus Patescibacteria is a diverse bacterial phylum that is notable for members with ultrasmall cell size, reduced genomes, limited metabolic capabilities, and dependence on other prokaryotic hosts. Despite the prevalence of the name Ca. Patescibacteria in the scientific literature, it is not officially recognized under the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes and lacks a nomenclatural type. Here, we rectify this situation by describing two closely related circular metagenome-assembled genomes and by proposing one of them (ABY1^TS) to serve as the nomenclatural type for the species Patescibacterium danicum ^TS gen. nov., sp. nov. according to the rules of the SeqCode. Rank-normalized phylogenomic inference confirmed the stable plac

SUBMITTER: Dutkiewicz Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11809585 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature