Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.32368

Name

Pelagibacter Rappé et al. 2002

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Pelagibacteraceae Thrash et al. 2011

Members

species	Pelagibacter ubique (sic) Rappé et al. 2002
species	Pelagibacter giovannonii Morris et al. 2020

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
class Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006
order Pelagibacterales Grote et al. 2012
family Pelagibacteraceae Thrash et al. 2011
genus Pelagibacter Rappé et al. 2002

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the genus Pelagibacter Rappé et al. 2002. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.32368.

Source File

10.1601/tx.32368.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 23, 2021.

References

Morris RM, Cain KR, Hvorecny KL, Kollman JM. Lysogenic host-virus interactions in SAR11 marine bacteria. Nat Microbiol 2020; 5:1011-1015. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-020-0725-x [PubMed].
Rappé MS, Connon SA, Vergin KL, Giovannoni SJ. Cultivation of the ubiquitous SAR11 marine bacterioplankton clade. Nature 2002; 418:630-633. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature00917 [PubMed].