Effusibacillus is a genus of Gram-positive, rod-shaped, aerobic, spore-forming bacteria.

Effusibacillus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Bacillota
Class: Bacilli
Order: Caryophanales
Family: Alicyclobacillaceae
Genus: Effusibacillus
Watanabe, Kojima & Fukui 2014
Type species
Effusibacillus lacus
Watanabe, Kojima & Fukui 2014
Species

Effusibacillus was first proposed in 2014 after a strain of bacteria was isolated from the sediment of a freshwater lake. While genetically similar to other members of the family Alicyclobacillaceae, the strain was found to be distinct enough to require its own genus, and was named E. lacus. It was also found that two other previously described organisms in the genus Alicyclobacillus, A. consociatus and A. pohliae belonged in this new genus. The name is derived from Latin effusus (disorderly) and bacillus (small rod), which refers to the various lengths of the cells microscopically.[1]

Members of this genus have been isolated from a lake in Japan, a lake in Antarctica, and from the blood of a woman (in a non-infectious capacity). E. lacus and E. pohliae are both thermophiles, with optimum growth temperatures above 50 °C, while the optimum growth temperature for E. consociatus is 30 °C.[1][2][3]

Phylogeny

edit

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)[4] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)[5]

16S rRNA based LTP_08_2023[6][7][8] 120 marker proteins based GTDB 08-RS214[9][10][11]
Effusibacillus

E. pohliae (Imperio et al. 2008) Watanabe, Kojima & Fukui 2014

E. dendaii Konishi et al. 2022

E. consociatus (Glaeser et al. 2013) Watanabe, Kojima & Fukui 2014

E. lacus Watanabe, Kojima & Fukui 2014

Effusibacillus

See also

edit

References

edit
  1. ^ a b Watanabe, M.; Kojima, H.; Fukui, M. (23 May 2014). "Proposal of Effusibacillus lacus gen. nov., sp. nov., and reclassification of Alicyclobacillus pohliae as Effusibacillus pohliae comb. nov. and Alicyclobacillus consociatus as Effusibacillus consociatus comb. nov". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 64 (Pt 8): 2770–2774. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.055814-0.
  2. ^ Imperio, T.; Viti, C.; Marri, L. (1 January 2008). "Alicyclobacillus pohliae sp. nov., a thermophilic, endospore-forming bacterium isolated from geothermal soil of the north-west slope of Mount Melbourne (Antarctica)". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 58 (1): 221–225. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.65092-0.
  3. ^ Glaeser, S. P.; Falsen, E.; Martin, K.; Kampfer, P. (19 April 2013). "Alicyclobacillus consociatus sp. nov., isolated from a human clinical specimen". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 63 (Pt 10): 3623–3627. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.048173-0.
  4. ^ A.C. Parte; et al. "Effusibacillus". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved 2022-09-09.
  5. ^ Sayers; et al. "Effusibacillus". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
  6. ^ "The LTP". Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  7. ^ "LTP_all tree in newick format". Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  8. ^ "LTP_08_2023 Release Notes" (PDF). Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  9. ^ "GTDB release 08-RS214". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
  10. ^ "bac120_r214.sp_label". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
  11. ^ "Taxon History". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2023.