Ammonifex

Ammonifex
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Bacillati
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Clostridia
Order:	Thermoanaerobacterales
Family:	Thermoanaerobacteraceae
Genus:	Ammonifex Huber and Stetter 1996 [1]
Type species
Ammonifex degensii Huber & Stetter 1996
Species [2]
Ammonifex degensii Ammonifex thiophilus

Ammonifex is a Gram-negative, extremely thermophilic, strictly anaerobic and motile genus of bacteria from the family Thermoanaerobacteraceae. ^{[1] [3] [4] [5]}

Phylogeny

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). ^[2]

16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024 [6] [7] [8]	120 marker proteins based GTDB 09-RS220 [9] [10] [11]
Ammonifex A. degensii Huber & Stetter 1996 A. thiophilus Miroshnichenko et al. 2008	Ammonifex A. degensii A. thiophilus

See also

• List of Bacteria genera
• List of bacterial orders

References

1. A.C. Parte; et al. "Ammonifex". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved 2025-02-28.
2. C.L. Schoch; et al. "Ammonifex". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. Retrieved 2025-02-28.
3. Parker, Charles Thomas; Osier, Nicole Danielle; Garrity, George M (2009). Parker, Charles Thomas; Garrity, George M (eds.). "Nomenclature Abstract for Ammonifex Huber et al. 1996 emend. Miroshnichenko et al. 2008". The NamesforLife Abstracts. doi:10.1601/nm.4519.
4. "Ammonifex". www.uniprot.org.
5. Huber, Robert (2015). "Ammonifex". Ammonifex. pp. 1–4. doi:10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00744. ISBN   9781118960608.
6. "The LTP" . Retrieved 10 December 2024.
7. "LTP_all tree in newick format" . Retrieved 10 December 2024.
8. "LTP_10_2024 Release Notes" (PDF). Retrieved 10 December 2024.
9. "GTDB release 09-RS220". Genome Taxonomy Database . Retrieved 10 May 2024.
10. "bac120_r220.sp_labels". Genome Taxonomy Database . Retrieved 10 May 2024.
11. "Taxon History". Genome Taxonomy Database . Retrieved 10 May 2024.

Further reading

• Miroshnichenko, M. L.; Tourova, T. P.; Kolganova, T. V.; Kostrikina, N. A.; Chernych, N.; Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E. A. (1 December 2008). "Ammonifex thiophilus sp. nov., a hyperthermophilic anaerobic bacterium from a Kamchatka hot spring". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 58 (12): 2935–2938. doi: 10.1099/ijs.0.2008/000182-0 . PMID   19060086.