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Front. Microbiol., 18 April 2018
Sec. Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology
Volume 9 - 2018 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.00772

Addendum: Comparative Genomic Analysis of the Class Epsilonproteobacteria and Proposed Reclassification to Epsilonbacteraeota (phyl. nov.)

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  1. Comparative Genomic Analysis of the Class Epsilonproteobacteria and Proposed Reclassification to Epsilonbacteraeota (phyl. nov.)

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\r\nDavid W. WaiteDavid W. Waite1Inka VanwonterghemInka Vanwonterghem1Christian RinkeChristian Rinke1Donovan H. ParksDonovan H. Parks1Ying ZhangYing Zhang2Ken TakaiKen Takai3Stefan M. SievertStefan M. Sievert4Jrg SimonJörg Simon5Barbara J. CampbellBarbara J. Campbell6Thomas E. Hanson,Thomas E. Hanson7,8Tanja WoykeTanja Woyke9Martin G. Klotz,Martin G. Klotz10,11Philip Hugenholtz*Philip Hugenholtz1*
  • 1Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
  • 2Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, College of the Environment and Life Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, United States
  • 3Department of Subsurface Geobiological Analysis and Research (D-SUGAR), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Japan
  • 4Department of Biology, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
  • 5Microbial Energy Conversion and Biotechnology, Department of Biology, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
  • 6Department of Biological Sciences, Life Science Facility, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States
  • 7School of Marine Science and Policy, College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
  • 8Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
  • 9Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, United States
  • 10School of Molecular Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States
  • 11State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Institute of Marine Microbes and Ecospheres, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

An addendum on
Comparative Genomic Analysis of the Class Epsilonproteobacteria and Proposed Reclassification to Epsilonbacteraeota (phyl. nov.)

by Waite, D. W., Vanwonterghem, I., Rinke, C., Parks, D. H., Zhang, Y., Takai, K., et al. (2017). Front. Microbiol. 8:682. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00682

In our original publication, we proposed the phylum name Epsilonbacteraeota according to a proposal to modify Rule 8 of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes, under which the suffix –aeota would be used to denote prokaryotic phyla (Oren et al., 2015). An addendum to this proposal was recently made whereby the shorter suffix –ota, instead of –aeota, be added to the stem of the name of one of the contained classes (Whitman et al., 2018). In accordance with this amendment, and the requirement that a class name is derived from a type genus (Oren et al., 2015), we propose to replace the name Epsilonbacteraeota with Campylobacterota. This change does not affect subordinate ranks of the phylum.

Campylobacterota (Cam.py.lo.bac.ter.o′ta. N.L. neut. n. Campylobacter type genus of the type order of the type class of the phylum; suff. -ota, proposed ending to denote a phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n. Campylobacterota the phylum of the class Campylobacteria).

Conflict of Interest Statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

References

Oren, A., Da Costa, M. S., Garrity, G. M., Rainey, F. A., Rosselló-Móra, R., Schink, B., et al. (2015). Proposal to include the rank of phylum in the international code of nomenclature of prokaryotes. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 65, 4284–4287. doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.000664

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Whitman, W. B., Oren, A., Chuvochina, M., Da Costa, M. S., Garrity, G. M., Rainey, F. A., et al. (2018). Proposal of the suffix –ota to denote phyla. Addendum to ‘Proposal to include the rank of phylum in the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes’ Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 65, 4284–4287. doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.002593

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Keywords: Epsilonproteobacteria, taxonomy, classification, genome, phylogenomics, Epsilonbacteraeota, Epsilonbacterota, evolution

Citation: Waite DW, Vanwonterghem I, Rinke C, Parks DH, Zhang Y, Takai K, Sievert SM, Simon J, Campbell BJ, Hanson TE, Woyke T, Klotz MG and Hugenholtz P (2018) Addendum: Comparative Genomic Analysis of the Class Epsilonproteobacteria and Proposed Reclassification to Epsilonbacteraeota (phyl. nov.). Front. Microbiol. 9:772. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00772

Received: 01 March 2018; Accepted: 05 April 2018;
Published: 18 April 2018.

Edited by:

Svetlana N. Dedysh, Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology (RAS), Russia

Reviewed by:

Barny Whitman, University of Georgia, United States

Copyright © 2018 Waite, Vanwonterghem, Rinke, Parks, Zhang, Takai, Sievert, Simon, Campbell, Hanson, Woyke, Klotz and Hugenholtz. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

*Correspondence: Philip Hugenholtz, p.hugenholtz@uq.edu.au

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