Microcaldus

Microcaldus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Kingdom:	Nanobdellati
Phylum:	Microcaldota Sakai et al. 2023
Class:	Microcaldia Sakai et al. 2023
Order:	Microcaldales Sakai et al. 2023
Family:	Microcaldaceae Sakai et al. 2023
Genus:	Microcaldus Sakai et al. 2023
Species:	M. variisymbioticus
Binomial name
Microcaldus variisymbioticus Sakai et al. 2023

Microcaldus is a monotypic genus of ultra-small archaea. It contains one species, Microcaldus variisymbioticus. It is in the monotypic family Microcaldaceae, monotypic order Microcaldales, monotypic class Microcaldia and monotypic phylum Microcaldota. ^{[1] [2]}

References

1. Sakai, Hiroyuki D.; Nur, Naswandi; Kato, Shingo; Yuki, Masahiro; Shimizu, Michiru; Itoh, Takashi; Ohkuma, Moriya; Suwanto, Antonius; Kurosawa, Norio (2022-01-18). "Insight into the symbiotic lifestyle of DPANN archaea revealed by cultivation and genome analyses". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119 (3): e2115449119. Bibcode:2022PNAS..11915449S. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2115449119 . PMC   8784108 . PMID   35022241.
2. Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M. (2020). List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 70, 5607-5612; DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332