Rhabdochlamydia

Candidatus Rhabdochlamydia is a genus of intracellular bacteria; a separate family, Candidatus Rhabdochlamydiaceae, has been proposed for this genus. Candidatus Rhabdochlamydia species have not been cultured in vitro and have not been deposited in culture collections.

Rhabdochlamydia
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Chlamydiota
Class: Chlamydiia
Order: Chlamydiales
Family: Rhabdochlamydiaceae
Genus: Rhabdochlamydia
Kostanjsek et al. 2004
Type species
"Ca. Rhabdochlamydia porcellionis"
Kostanjsek et al. 2004
Species[1]
  • "Ca. R. crassificans" Corsaro et al. 2006
  • "Ca. R. porcellionis" Kostanjšek et al. 2004

Two Rhabdochlamydia species have been characterized and validly proposed. Their ribosomal RNA genes are 96.3% identical. These gene sequences are 82%–87% identical to those of most Chlamydiales. These data and Rhabdochlamydia morphology indicate that these species will belong to the order Chlamydiales, class Chlamydiia, phylum Chlamydiota, domain Bacteria.

Candidatus Rhabdochlamydia porcellionis was identified in the hepatopancreas of the woodlouse Porcellio scaber (Crustacea: Isopoda).[2]

The second Rhabdochlamydia species is Candidatus Rhabdochlamydia crassificans, which was identified in the cockroach Blatta orientalis (Insecta: Blattodea).[3]

See also

References
  1. J.P. Euzéby. "Some names included in the category Candidatus". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature. Archived from the original on 2011-06-13. Retrieved 2011-06-05.
  2. Daniele Corsaro; Vincent Thomas; Genevieve Goy; Danielle Venditti; Renate Radek & Gilbert Greub (2007). "'Candidatus Rhabdochlamydia crassificans', an intracellular bacterial pathogen of the cockroach Blatta orientalis (Insecta: Blattodea)". Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 30 (3): 221–228. doi:10.1016/j.syapm.2006.06.001. PMID 16934426.
  3. Rok Kostanjšek; Jasna Štrus; Damjana Drobne & Gorazd Avguštin (2004). "'Candidatus Rhabdochlamydia porcellionis', an intracellular bacterium from the hepatopancreas of the terrestrial isopod Porcellio scaber (Crustacea: Isopoda)". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 54 (Pt 2): 543–549. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02802-0. PMID 15023973.
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