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BioProject 417 513 -
BioSample 2,676 3,093 -
Conserved Domains 2 2 -
GEO DataSets 82 114 -
Gene 19,090 109,069 -
Identical Protein Groups 936,899 1,049,706 -
Nucleotide 215,793 270,724 644
PubChem BioAssay 73 75 -
PMC 9,761 9,761 -
Protein 3,082,098 4,048,638 -
SRA 2,086 2,346 -
Structure 83 157 -
Taxonomy 156 156 -

Bacillus thuringiensis

Taxonomy ID: 1428 (for references in articles please use ncbitaxon:1428)
current name
Bacillus thuringiensis  Berliner 1915 (Approved Lists 1980) in  in  [Skerman VBD et al. (1980)] , [Berliner E (1915)]
type strain of Bacillus thuringiensis: ATCC : 10792 , CCUG : 7429 , CIP : 53.137 , DSM : 2046 , HAMBI : 478 , JCM : 20386 , BCCM/LMG : 7138 , NBRC : 101235 , : , NCCB : 70008 , NRRL : HD-735 , VKM : B-1544 , IAM : 12077
includes:
Bacillus sp. GIBC-Kohala
Bacillus sp. B1(2015b)
Bacillus sp. TB161
Bacillus sp. JB
Bacillus sp. CHR1P1B2
Bacillus sp. BHR1P2B1S
Bacillus sp. DPC6431
Bacillus sp. RM11(2019)
Bacillus sp. ZZQ-130
NCBI BLAST name: firmicutes
Rank: species
Genetic code: Translation table 11 (Bacterial, Archaeal and Plant Plastid)
Lineage(full)
cellular organisms; Bacteria; Bacillati; Bacillota; Bacilli; Caryophanales; Bacillaceae; Bacillus; Bacillus cereus group

Comments and References:

Skerman VBD et al. (1980)
Skerman, V.B.D., McGowan, V., and Sneath, P.H.A. "Approved Lists of Bacterial Names." Intl. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1980) 30(1):225-420.
Berliner E (1915)
Baek I et al. (2019) , doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.01978 , Pubmed: abstract
Baek, I., Lee, K., Goodfellow, M., and Chun, J. "Comparative genomic and phylogenomic analyses clarify relationships within and between Bacillus cereus and Bacillus thuringiensis: Proposal for the recognition of two Bacillus thuringiensis genomovars." Front. Microbiol. (2019) 10:1978.
image:Bacillus thuringiensis
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Nakamura LK (1994)
Nakamura, L.K. "DNA relatedness among Bacillus thuringiensis serovars." Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1994) 44(1):125-129.
Joung KB & Cote JC (2002)
Joung, K.B., and Cote, J.C. "A single phylogenetic analysis of Bacillus thuringiensis strains and bacilli species inferred from 16S rRNA gene restriction fragment length polymorphism is congruent with two independent phylogenetic analyses." J. Appl. Microbiol. (2002) 93(6):1075-1082.
Shiekh Suliman N et al. (2025)
Shiekh Suliman, N., Talaei-Hassanloui, R., Abachi, H., Zarei, S., and Osdaghi, E. "Taxonomic refinement of Bacillus thuringiensis." Front. Microbiol. (2025) 16:1518307.

External Information Resources (NCBI LinkOut)

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Bacillus thuringiensis type strain (BD-ID 1006) meta-databases BacDive
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Bacillus thuringiensis taxonomy/phylogenetic Lifemap
Bacillus thuringiensis | SeqCode Registry taxonomy/phylogenetic SeqCode Registry
Bacillus thuringiensis type strain (SI-ID 389259) meta-databases StrainInfo, Leibniz Institute DSMZ
Wikipedia taxonomy/phylogenetic iPhylo
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Reference: How to cite this resource - Schoch CL, et al. NCBI Taxonomy: a comprehensive update on curation, resources and tools. Database (Oxford). 2020: baaa062. PubMed: 32761142 PMC: PMC7408187.


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