Gemmatimonas

Gemmatimonas
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Gemmatimonadota
Class:	Gemmatimonadetes
Order:	Gemmatimonadales
Family:	Gemmatimonadaceae
Genus:	Gemmatimonas Zhang et al. 2003 [1]
Type species
Gemmatimonas aurantiaca Zhang et al. 2003
Species
G. aurantiaca " G. groenlandica " G. phototrophica
Synonyms
Gemmimonas (sic) [2]

Gemmatimonas is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped, motile and non-spore-forming genus of bacteria from the family of Gemmatimonaceae. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

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). ^[4]

16S rRNA based LTP_08_2023 [5] [6] [7]	120 marker proteins based GTDB 10-RS226 [8] [9] [10]
Gemmatimonas G. aurantiaca G. phototrophica	Gemmatimonas " G. groenlandica " Zeng et al. 2020 G. aurantiaca Zhang et al. 2003 G. phototrophica Zeng et al. 2015

See also

• List of bacterial orders
• List of bacteria genera

References

1. Gemmatimonas in LPSN ; Freese, H. M.; Meier-Kolthoff, J. P.; Sardà Carbasse, J.; Afolayan, A. O.; Göker, M. (29 October 2025). "TYGS and LPSN in 2025: a Global Core Biodata Resource for genome-based classification and nomenclature of prokaryotes within DSMZ Digital Diversity". Nucleic Acids Research. 53: D1 –D12. doi:10.1093/nar/gkaf1110.
2. "Gemmatimonas". www.uniprot.org.
3. Parte, Aidan; Krieg, Noel R.; Ludwig, Wolfgang; Whitman, William B.; Hedlund, Brian P.; Paster, Bruce J.; Staley, James T.; Ward, Naomi; Brown, Daniel (4 February 2011). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology: Volume 4: The Bacteroidetes, Spirochaetes, Tenericutes (Mollicutes), Acidobacteria, Fibrobacteres, Fusobacteria, Dictyoglomi, Gemmatimonadetes, Lentisphaerae, Verrucomicrobia, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 782. ISBN   978-0-387-68572-4.
4. Schoch CL; et al. "Gemmatimonas". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. Retrieved 2025-06-05.
5. "The LTP" . Retrieved 20 November 2023.
6. "LTP_all tree in newick format" . Retrieved 20 November 2023.
7. "LTP_08_2023 Release Notes" (PDF). Retrieved 20 November 2023.
8. "GTDB release 10-RS226". Genome Taxonomy Database . Retrieved 1 May 2025.
9. "bac120_r226.sp_label". Genome Taxonomy Database . Retrieved 1 May 2025.
10. "Taxon History". Genome Taxonomy Database . Retrieved 1 May 2025.

Further reading

• Yamagishi, Akihiko; Kakegawa, Takeshi; Usui, Tomohiro (27 February 2019). Astrobiology: From the Origins of Life to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Springer. ISBN   978-981-13-3639-3.