Phocaeicola

Phocaeicola
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Bacteroidota
Class: Bacteroidia
Order: Bacteroidales
Family: Bacteroidaceae
Genus: Phocaeicola
Al Masalma et al., 2009

Phocaeicola is a genus of gram-negative, non-spore-forming, coccoid to rod-shaped cells with no flagella in the phylum Bacteroidota.[1] The first known species of Phocaeicola, P. abscessus, was isolated from a brain abscess in Foça Turkey.[2] It was named after the Ionian Greek city, Phocaea, now modern day Foça.[3]

Recently 14 Bacteroides species (B. vulgatus, B. barnesiae, B. caecicola, B. caecigallinarum, B. chincillae, B. coprocola, B. coprophilus, B. dorei, B. gallinaceum, B. massiliensis, B. paurosaccharolyticus, B. plebeius, B. salanitronis, B. sartorii) have been reclassified as Phocaeicola due to phylogenetic differences.[1]

  1. ^ a b García-López, Marina; Meier-Kolthoff, Jan P.; Tindall, Brian J.; Gronow, Sabine; Woyke, Tanja; Kyrpides, Nikos C.; Hahnke, Richard L.; Göker, Markus (23 September 2019). "Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes". Frontiers in Microbiology. 10: 2083. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2019.02083. PMC 6767994. PMID 31608019.
  2. ^ Al Masalma, M.; Raoult, D.; Roux, V. (1 September 2009). "Phocaeicola abscessus gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic bacterium isolated from a human brain abscess sample". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 59 (9): 2232–2237. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.007823-0. PMID 19620382.
  3. ^ "Genus: Phocaeicola". lpsn.dsmz.de.