The bacterial order Chlamydiales includes only obligately intracellular bacteria that have a chlamydia-like developmental cycle of replication and at least 80% 16S rRNA or 23S rRNA gene sequence identity with other members of Chlamydiales. Chlamydiales live in animals, insects, and protozoa.

Chlamydiales
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Chlamydiota
Class: Chlamydiia
Order: Chlamydiales
Storz and Page 1971
Families
Synonyms
  • "Amoebachlamydiales" Dharamshi et al. 2021
  • "Anoxychlamydiales" Dharamshi et al. 2019
  • Parachlamydiales Gupta et al. 2016
  • "Simkaniales" Dharamshi et al. 2021

Currently, the order Chlamydiales includes the families Chlamydiaceae, Simkaniaceae, and Waddliaceae, which have Gram-negative extracellular infectious bodies (EBs), and Parachlamydiaceae, which has variable Gram staining of EBs. The family Rhabdochlamydiaceae has been proposed.

Phylogeny edit

16S rRNA based LTP_08_2023[1][2][3] 120 marker proteins based GTDB 08-RS214[4][5][6]
Chlamydiales

Taxonomy edit

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)[7] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)[8]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "The LTP". Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  2. ^ "LTP_all tree in newick format". Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  3. ^ "LTP_08_2023 Release Notes" (PDF). Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  4. ^ "GTDB release 08-RS214". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
  5. ^ "bac120_r214.sp_label". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
  6. ^ "Taxon History". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
  7. ^ J.P. Euzéby. "Chlamydiota". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved 2022-09-09.
  8. ^ Sayers; et al. "Chlamydiae". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. Retrieved 2022-09-09.