Afipia is a genus of bacteria in the Nitrobacteraceae family.[5]

Afipia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order: Hyphomicrobiales
Family: Nitrobacteraceae
Genus: Afipia
Brenner et al. 1992[1]
Type species
Afipia felis[1]
Brenner et al. 1992
Species
Synonyms[4]
  • Oligotropha Meyer et al. 1994

Phylogeny edit

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN).[1] The phylogeny is based on whole-genome analysis.[4]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c LPSN lpsn.dsmz.de
  2. ^ Lo, S. C.; Hung, G. C.; Li, B.; Lei, H.; Li, T.; Nagamine, K.; Zhang, J.; Tsai, S.; Bryant, R. (2013). "Isolation of Novel Afipia septicemium and Identification of Previously Unknown Bacteria Bradyrhizobium sp. OHSU_III from Blood of Patients with Poorly Defined Illnesses". PLOS ONE. 8 (10): e76142. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...876142L. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0076142. PMC 3796525. PMID 24155888.
  3. ^ Anzai Y, Kim H, Park JY, Wakabayashi H, Oyaizu H (Jul 2000). "Phylogenetic affiliation of the pseudomonads based on 16S rRNA sequence". Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 50 (4): 1563–89. doi:10.1099/00207713-50-4-1563. PMID 10939664.
  4. ^ a b Hördt, Anton; López, Marina García; Meier-Kolthoff, Jan P.; Schleuning, Marcel; Weinhold, Lisa-Maria; Tindall, Brian J.; Gronow, Sabine; Kyrpides, Nikos C.; Woyke, Tanja; Göker, Markus (7 April 2020). "Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria". Frontiers in Microbiology. 11: 468. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2020.00468. PMC 7179689. PMID 32373076.
  5. ^ UniProt