Zixibacteria
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Domain: Bacteria
Clade: FCB group
Phylum: Zixibacteria
Castelle et al. 2013

Zixibacteria is a bacterial phylum with candidate status, meaning it had no cultured representatives.[1] It is a member of the FCB group[2]

Zixibacteria was proposed as a bacterial phylum following the recovery of a genome from representative RBG-1.[1] This genome was recovered using genome-resolved metagenomics from sediment samples of an aquifer adjacent to the Colorado River (CO, USA) and was suggestive of metabolically versatility, which is presumably requisite for life in a rapidly changing environment such as aquifer sediments[1]

Since being proposed as a phylum in 2013, members of the Zixibacteria phylum have been detected in a variety of other environments (sometimes retroactively), including subsurface sediments (WA, USA),[3] estuary water (NC, USA),[4] moonmilk cave deposits (Comblain-au-Pont, Belgium),[5] and deep subsurface fracture fluids from a gold mine (SD, USA)[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c Castelle, Cindy J.; Hug, Laura A.; Wrighton, Kelly C.; Thomas, Brian C.; Williams, Kenneth H.; Wu, Dongying; Tringe, Susannah G.; Singer, Steven W.; Eisen, Jonathan A.; Banfield, Jillian F. (2013-08-27). "Extraordinary phylogenetic diversity and metabolic versatility in aquifer sediment". Nature Communications. 4 (1): 2120. Bibcode:2013NatCo...4.2120C. doi:10.1038/ncomms3120. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 3903129. PMID 23979677.
  2. ^ "Taxonomy - candidate division Zixibacteria". Uniprot Taxonomy Server. 25 May 2018. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  3. ^ Lin, Xueju; Kennedy, David; Fredrickson, Jim; Bjornstad, Bruce; Konopka, Allan (2012). "Vertical stratification of subsurface microbial community composition across geological formations at the Hanford Site". Environmental Microbiology. 14 (2): 414–425. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02659.x. ISSN 1462-2920. PMID 22122741.
  4. ^ Baker, Brett J.; Lazar, Cassandre Sara; Teske, Andreas P.; Dick, Gregory J. (2015-04-13). "Genomic resolution of linkages in carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur cycling among widespread estuary sediment bacteria". Microbiome. 3 (1): 14. doi:10.1186/s40168-015-0077-6. ISSN 2049-2618. PMC 4411801. PMID 25922666.
  5. ^ Maciejewska, Marta; Całusińska, Magdalena; Cornet, Luc; Adam, Delphine; Pessi, Igor S.; Malchair, Sandrine; Delfosse, Philippe; Baurain, Denis; Barton, Hazel A.; Carnol, Monique; Rigali, Sébastien (2018-03-21). "High-Throughput Sequencing Analysis of the Actinobacterial Spatial Diversity in Moonmilk Deposits". Antibiotics. 7 (2): 27. doi:10.3390/antibiotics7020027. ISSN 2079-6382. PMC 6023079. PMID 29561792.
  6. ^ Momper, Lily; Jungbluth, Sean P.; Lee, Michael D.; Amend, Jan P. (October 2017). "Energy and carbon metabolisms in a deep terrestrial subsurface fluid microbial community". The ISME Journal. 11 (10): 2319–2333. doi:10.1038/ismej.2017.94. ISSN 1751-7370. PMC 5607374. PMID 28644444.


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