Oscillibacter
| Oscillibacter | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Bacillati |
| Phylum: | Bacillota |
| Class: | Clostridia |
| Order: | Eubacteriales |
| Family: | Oscillospiraceae |
| Genus: | Oscillibacter Iino et al. 2007 |
| Type species | |
| Oscillibacter valericigenes Iino et al. 2007 | |
| Species[1] | |
Oscillibacter is a genus of strictly anaerobic, Gram-stain-negative, non-spore-forming, rod-shaped bacteria in the family Oscillospiraceae.[1][2] The type species is Oscillibacter valericigenes. Four species have validly published and correct names and a fifth has been provisionally described.[1][3]
Description and ecology
[edit]Members of Oscillibacter are fermentative bacteria associated with animal digestive tracts. The type strain of O. valericigenes was isolated from the alimentary canal of a Japanese corbicula clam. Its cells are straight to slightly curved rods, are motile by means of peritrichous flagella, and produce valerate as a major fermentation product from glucose.[2]
Oscillibacter ruminantium was originally isolated from the rumen of cattle. It is also motile by peritrichous flagella and produces butyrate as its major fermentation product under the tested conditions.[4] The type strain of O. acetigenes was isolated from human feces.[5]
Taxonomy
[edit]The name Oscillibacter combines the Latin word oscillum, meaning a swing, with bacter, meaning a rod, and refers to the oscillating movement of cells of the type species.[1] The genus was described in 2007, and an emended description was published in 2020.[6]
Phylogeny
[edit]The phylogenomic tree below is a pruned extract from the bacterial species tree of GTDB release R11-RS232. The GTDB bacterial tree is based on a concatenated alignment of 120 single-copy marker proteins.[7][8][9]
The lettered suffixes distinguish additional GTDB species clusters and do not represent separately validly published species names. O. acetigenes is not represented under its current name in the R11-RS232 species-label tree.[9]
| 120 marker protein-based phylogeny (GTDB R11-RS232) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 "Genus: Oscillibacter". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature. Leibniz Institute DSMZ. Retrieved 29 July 2026.
- 1 2 Iino, Takao; Mori, Koji; Tanaka, Kenji; Suzuki, Ken-ichiro; Harayama, Shigeaki (2007). "Oscillibacter valericigenes gen. nov., sp. nov., a valerate-producing anaerobic bacterium isolated from the alimentary canal of a Japanese corbicula clam". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 57 (8): 1840–1845. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.64717-0.
- ↑ Fu, Jingyuan; Zhang, Yue; Zhernakova, Daria; Gacesa, Ranko; Andreu-Sánchez, Sergio; Wu, Jiafei; Kurilshikov, Alexander; Wu, Jiqiu; Temba, Godfrey (2025-07-29), Microbial Adaptation in Healthy Ageing: Insights from Age-associated Structural Variation in the Human Gut Microbiome, doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-5633858/v1, retrieved 2026-08-28
- ↑ Lee, Geun-Hye; Rhee, Moon-Soo; Chang, Dong-Ho; Lee, Jonghwan; Kim, Seil; Yoon, Min Ho; Kim, Byoung-Chan (2013). "Oscillibacter ruminantium sp. nov., isolated from the rumen of Korean native cattle". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 63 (Pt 6): 1942–1946. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.041749-0.
- ↑ Hitch, Thomas C. A.; Riedel, Thomas; Oren, Aharon; Overmann, Jörg; Lawley, Trevor D.; Clavel, Thomas (2021). "Automated analysis of genomic sequences facilitates high-throughput and comprehensive description of bacteria". ISME Communications. 1 (1) 16. doi:10.1038/s43705-021-00017-z. PMC 9723785. PMID 36732617.
- ↑ Le Roy, Tiphaine; Van der Smissen, Patrick; Paquot, Adrien; Delzenne, Nathalie; Muccioli, Giulio G.; Collet, Jean-François; Cani, Patrice D. (2020). "Dysosmobacter welbionis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from human faeces and emended description of the genus Oscillibacter". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 70 (9): 4851–4858. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.003547. hdl:2078.1/226713. PMID 31232680.
- ↑ "About GTDB". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 29 July 2026.
- ↑ "Announcing GTDB R11-RS232". Genome Taxonomy Database Forum. 15 April 2026. Retrieved 29 July 2026.
- 1 2 "bac120_r232.sp_labels.tree". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 29 July 2026.
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