Prevotella

Taxonomy ID: 838 (for references in articles please use NCBI:txid838)

current name

Prevotella  Shah and Collins 1990 emend. Sakamoto and Ohkuma 2012

homotypic synonym:

Prevotella  Shah and Collins 1990 emend. Willems and Collins 1995

NCBI BLAST name: CFB group bacteria
Rank: genus
Genetic code: Translation table 11 (Bacterial, Archaeal and Plant Plastid)

Lineage(full)

cellular organisms; Bacteria; Pseudomonadati; FCB group; Bacteroidota/Chlorobiota group; Bacteroidota; Bacteroidia; Bacteroidales; Prevotellaceae

Comments and References:

Prevotella (LPSN link)

Xylanibacter (LPSN link)

Kononen E et al. (1998) Kononen, E., Matto, J., Vaisanen-Tunkelrott, M.L., Frandsen, E.V., Helander, I., Asikainen, S., Finegold, S.M., and Jousimies-Somer, H. "Biochemical and genetic characterization of a Prevotella intermedia/nigrescens-like organism." Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1998) 48:39-46.

Sakamoto M & Ohkuma M (2012b) Sakamoto, M., and Ohkuma, M. "Reclassification of Xylanibacter oryzae Ueki et al. 2006 as Prevotella oryzae comb. nov., with an emended description of the genus Prevotella." Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2012) 62:2637-2642.

Shah HN & Collins DM (1990) Shah, H.N., and Collins, D.M. "Prevotella, a new genus to include Bacteroides melaninogenicus and related species formerly classified in the genus Bacteroides." Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1990) 40(2):205-208.

Ueki A et al. (2006b) Ueki, A., Akasaka, H., Suzuki, D., Hattori, S., and Ueki, K. "Xylanibacter oryzae gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel strictly anaerobic, Gram-negative, xylanolytic bacterium isolated from rice-plant residue in flooded rice-field soil in Japan." Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2006) 56:2215-2221.

Willems A & Collins MD (1995c) Willems, A., and Collins, M.D. "16S rRNA gene similarities indicate that Hallella seregens (Moore and Moore) and Mitsuokella dentalis (Haapsalo et al.) are genealogically highly related and are members of the genus Prevotella: emended description of the genus Prevotella (Shah and Collins) and description of Prevotella dentalis comb. nov." Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1995) 45:832-836.