Moorella is a genus of bacteria belonging to the phylum Bacillota.[2]

Moorella
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Moorella

Collins et al. 1994 non Rao & Rao 1964[1]
Type species
Moorella thermoacetica
(Fontaine et al. 1942) Collins et al. 1994
Species

These bacteria are thermophilic, anaerobic and endospore-forming and many species of this genus have been isolated from hot springs. Some of these species were formerly included within the genus Clostridium, but after a taxonomic rearrangement of the class Clostridia, a phylogenetically distinct genus was identified, which was named Moorella in honor of the American microbiologist W.E.C. Moore.[2]

Phylogeny

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The current phylogeny of these bacteria has been inferred from a computational analysis of 16S ribosomal RNA genes of described species belonging to the Moorella Group (a larger group of bacteria within the family Thermoanaerobacteraceae that also includes other species actually not belonging to genus Moorella). The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)[1] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)[3]

16S rRNA based LTP_08_2023[4][5][6] 120 marker proteins based GTDB 08-RS214.[7][8][9]
Moorella

M. caeni Santaella, Sousa & Stams 2023

M. thermoacetica (Fontaine et al. 1942) Collins et al. 1994

M. humiferrea Nepomnyashchaya et al. 2012

M. sulfitireducens Slobodkina et al. 2023

M. stamsii Alves et al. 2013

M. glycerini Slobodkin et al. 1997

M. mulderi Balk et al. 2005

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b A.C. Parte; et al. "Moorella". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved 2022-09-09.
  2. ^ a b Collins, M. D.; Lawson, P. A.; Willems, A.; Cordoba, J. J.; Fernandez-Garayzabal, J.; Garcia, P.; Cai, J.; Hippe, H.; Farrow, J. A. E. (1994). "The Phylogeny of the Genus Clostridium: Proposal of Five New Genera and Eleven New Species Combinations". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 44 (4): 812–826. doi:10.1099/00207713-44-4-812. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 7981107.
  3. ^ Sayers; et al. "Moorella". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
  4. ^ "The LTP". Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  5. ^ "LTP_all tree in newick format". Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  6. ^ "LTP_08_2023 Release Notes" (PDF). Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  7. ^ "GTDB release 08-RS214". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
  8. ^ "bac120_r214.sp_label". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
  9. ^ "Taxon History". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2023.