Chloracidobacterium | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Bacteria |
Phylum: | Acidobacteriota |
Class: | "Acidobacteriia" |
Order: | Acidobacteriales |
Family: | Acidobacteriaceae |
Genus: | "Chloracidobacterium" Tank and Bryant 2015[1] |
Type species | |
"Chloracidobacterium thermophilum" Tank and Bryant 2015
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Chloracidobacterium is a genus of the Acidobacteriota.[4] It is currently assigned to the family Acidobacteriaceae, but phylogenetic evidence suggests that it belongs in Blastocatellia.[5]
This is a group of photosynthetic bacteria were discovered in 2007 and their identification extends the number of bacterial phyla that can carry out chlorophyll-based photosynthesis from five to six.[3][6]
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