Deltaproteobacteria

Taxonomy ID: 28221 (for references in articles please use ncbitaxon:28221)

current name

Deltaproteobacteria  Kuever et al. 2006 emend. Hahn et al. 2017

includes:

Dissimilatory sulfate or sulfur reducers

Sulfate- or sulfur-reducing dissimilatory bacteria

Sulfate-reducing or sulfur-reducing dissimilatory bacteria

Genbank common name: d-proteobacteria
NCBI BLAST name: d-proteobacteria
Rank: class
Genetic code: Translation table 11 (Bacterial, Archaeal and Plant Plastid)
Other names:

heterotypic synonym

delta subgroup

heterotypic synonym

delta subdivision

heterotypic synonym

delta proteobacteria

heterotypic synonym

Purple bacteria, delta subdivision

heterotypic synonym

Proteobacteria delta subdivision

heterotypic synonym

"Deltabacteria" Cavalier-Smith 1992

heterotypic synonym

Deltabacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002

blast name

d-proteobacteria

Lineage(full)

cellular organisms; Bacteria; delta/epsilon subdivisions

Comments and References:

Cavalier-Smith T (2002) Cavalier-Smith, T. "The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification." Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2002) 52(1):7-76.

Hahn MW et al. (2017) Hahn, M.W., Schmidt, J., Koll, U., Rohde, M., Verbarg, S., Pitt, A., Nakai, R., Naganuma, T., and Lang, E. "Silvanigrella aquatica gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a freshwater lake, description of Silvanigrellaceae fam. nov. and Silvanigrellales ord. nov., reclassification of the order Bdellovibrionales in the class Oligoflexia, reclassification of the families Bacteriovoracaceae and Halobacteriovoraceae in the new order Bacteriovoracales ord. nov., and reclassification of the family Pseudobacteriovoracaceae in the order Oligoflexales." Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2017) 67(8):2555-2568.

Kuever J et al. (2005) Kuever, J., Rainey, F.A., and Widdel, F. "Class IV. Deltaproteobacteria class. nov." In: D.J. Brenner,, N.R. Krieg, J.T. Staley, and G.M. Garrity (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 922. [No PubMed record available.]

Oren A et al. (2016) Oren, A., Parte, A., and Garrity, G.M. "Implementation of Rule 8 of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes for the renaming of classes. Request for an Opinion." Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2016) 66(10):4296-4298.

VALIDATION LIST No. 107 (2006) Validation List No. 107. "List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published." Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2006) 56:1-6. [Erratum: Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2006) 56:677.]

Waite DW et al. (2020b) Waite, D.W., Chuvochina, M., Pelikan, C., Parks, D.H., Yilmaz, P., Wagner, M., Loy, A., Naganuma, T., Nakai, R., Whitman, W.B., Hahn, M.W., Kuever, J., and Hugenholtz, P. "Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting major functional capabilities." Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2020) 70(11):5972-6016.