The Thermomicrobia are a group of thermophilic green non-sulfur bacteria. Until 2004, they were classified as a distinct phylum.[1] It has recently been proposed, on the basis of an analysis of genetic affilations, that the thermomicrobia should more properly be reclassified as a class belonging to the phylum chloroflexi.[2]
References
- ^ Garrity, G. M.; Holt, J. G. (2001). "Phylum BVII. Thermomicrobia phy. nov.", in Boone D. R., Castenholz R. W., Garrity G. M.: Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 1, The Archaea and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic Bacteria. Springer.
- ^ Hugenholtz P, Stackebrandt E (2004). "Reclassification of Sphaerobacter thermophilus from the subclass Sphaerobacteridae in the phylum Actinobacteria to the class Thermomicrobia (emended description) in the phylum Chloroflexi (emended description)". Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 54 (Pt 6): 2049–51. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.03028-0. PMID 15545432.
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