Biology:Rhabdochlamydia

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Rhabdochlamydia
Scientific classification e
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
  • "Ca. R. crassificans"
  • "Ca. R. helvetica"
  • "Ca. R. oedothoracis"
  • "Ca. R. porcellionis"

Candidatus Rhabdochlamydia is a genus of intracellular bacteria and the sole genus in the family Candidatus Rhabdochlamydiaceae. As a Candidatus taxon, no-one has yet managed to culture them in vitro for deposition in a culture collection.

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 analysis of Rhabdochlamydia morphology indicates that these species belong to the bacterial order Chlamydiales.

Species

The genus consists of the following two valid species:[1]

  • Candidatus Rhabdochlamydia crassificans Kostanjšek et al. 2004 – detected in the cockroach Blatta orientalis[2]
  • Candidatus Rhabdochlamydia porcellionis Corsaro et al. 2006 – detected in hepatopancreas of the woodlouse Porcellio scaber[3]

See also

References

  1. J.P. Euzéby. "Some names included in the category Candidatus". Archived from the original on 2011-06-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20110613224340/http://www.bacterio.cict.fr/candidatus.html. 
  2. 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. 
  3. 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. 

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