Flavobacteriia

Flavobacteriia
Elizabethkingia meningoseptica on blood agar
Elizabethkingia meningoseptica on blood agar
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Bacteroidota
Class: Flavobacteriia
Bernardet 2012[1]
Orders[2]
  • Flavobacteriales Bernardet 2012
  • Genera not assigned to an order or family
    • "Candidatus Walczuchella monophlebidarum" Rosas-Perez et al. 2014

The class Flavobacteriia is composed of a single class of environmental bacteria.[3] It contains the family Flavobacteriaceae, which is the largest family in the phylum Bacteroidota.[4] This class is widely distributed in soil, fresh, and seawater habitats.[5] The name is often spelt Flavobacteria, but was officially named Flavobacteriia in 2012.[6][7]

Flavobacteriia are gram-negative aerobic rods, 2–5 μm long, 0.1–0.5 μm wide, with rounded or tapered ends.[6] They form circular cream to orange coloured colonies on agar, and are typically simple to successfully culture.[5] Flavobacteriia is a chemoorganotroph and are known for their ability to mineralize or degrade dissolved organic matter of high molecular weight and particulate plant material.[8]

Flavobacteriia have impacts on both the environment and human society, as they are able to cause diseases in many organisms. They are important in the decomposition of organic matter and pollutants, and are key members in the formation of marine biofilms.[9] They also have been known to cause diseases in some animal species, specifically bacterial cold water disease and columnaris disease.[10][11]

  1. ^ Bernardet JF (2010). "Class II. Flavobacteriia class. nov.". In Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds.). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. Vol. 4 (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Springer. p. 105.
  2. ^ Euzéby JP, Parte AC. "Flavobacteriia". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved June 29, 2021.
  3. ^ Boone DR, Castenholz RW, eds. (2001). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. Vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria) (2nd ed.). New York: Springer-Verlag. pp. 465–466. ISBN 978-0-443-05615-4.
  4. ^ McBride M (2014). "The Family Flavobacteriaceae". The Prokaryotes. pp. 643–676. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-38954-2_130. ISBN 978-3-642-38953-5 – via SpringerLink.
  5. ^ a b Buchan A, LeCleir GR, Gulvik CA, González JM (October 2014). "Master recyclers: features and functions of bacteria associated with phytoplankton blooms". Nature Reviews. Microbiology. 12 (10): 686–698. doi:10.1038/nrmicro3326. PMID 25134618. S2CID 26684717.
  6. ^ a b Bernardet JF, Bowman JP (July 2013). "International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Flavobacterium and Cytophaga-like bacteria: Minutes of the meetings, 7 September 2011, Sapporo, Japan". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 63 (Pt 7): 2752–2754. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.053926-0. PMID 23825377.
  7. ^ "Flavobacteriia class". allmicrobes.com. Archived from the original on 1 November 2014. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
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