Use of gene sequences as type for naming prokaryotes: Recommendations of the international committee on the taxonomy of chlamydiae

Gilbert Greub; Trestan Pillonel; Patrik M. Bavoil; Nicole Borel; Lee Ann Campbell; Deborah Dean; Scott Hefty; Matthias Horn; Servaas A. Morré; Scot P. Ouellette; Yvonne Pannekoek; Mirja Puolakkainen; Peter Timms; Raphael Valdivia; Daisy Vanrompay

New Microbes and New Infections (Sep 2023)

Use of gene sequences as type for naming prokaryotes: Recommendations of the international committee on the taxonomy of chlamydiae

Gilbert Greub,
Trestan Pillonel,
Patrik M. Bavoil,
Nicole Borel,
Lee Ann Campbell,
Deborah Dean,
Scott Hefty,
Matthias Horn,
Servaas A. Morré,
Scot P. Ouellette,
Yvonne Pannekoek,
Mirja Puolakkainen,
Peter Timms,
Raphael Valdivia,
Daisy Vanrompay

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Gilbert Greub: Centre for Research on Intracellular Bacteria, Institute of Microbiology, University Hospital Centre and University of Lausanne, Bugnon 48, 1011, Lausanne, Switzerland; Corresponding author. Institute of Microbiology, Department of Laboratory, Rue du Bugnon 48, 1011, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland.
Trestan Pillonel: Centre for Research on Intracellular Bacteria, Institute of Microbiology, University Hospital Centre and University of Lausanne, Bugnon 48, 1011, Lausanne, Switzerland
Patrik M. Bavoil: Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, University of Maryland School of Dentistry, Baltimore, MD, USA
Nicole Borel: Department of Pathobiology, Institute of Veterinary Pathology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 268, CH-8057, Zurich, Switzerland
Lee Ann Campbell: Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Deborah Dean: Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, Oakland, CA, USA
Scott Hefty: Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA
Matthias Horn: Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, University of Vienna, 1090, Vienna, Austria
Servaas A. Morré: Laboratory of Immunogenetics, Department of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Institute for Public Health Genomics (IPHG), Department of Genetics and Cell Biology, Research School GROW (School for Oncology & Developmental Biology), Faculty of Health, Medicine & Life Sciences, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, the Netherlands; Dutch Chlamydia Trachomatis Reference Laboratory, Department of Medical Microbiology & Infection Control, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Scot P. Ouellette: Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
Yvonne Pannekoek: Department of Medical Microbiology, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Mirja Puolakkainen: Department of Virology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
Peter Timms: Genecology Research Center, University of Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia
Raphael Valdivia: Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27710, USA
Daisy Vanrompay: Department of Animal Science and Aquatic Ecology, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, B-9000, Ghent, Belgium

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 54
p. 101158

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The International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes (ICSP) discussed and rejected in 2020 a proposal to modify the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes to allow the use of gene sequences as type for naming prokaryotes. An alternative nomenclatural code, the Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes Described from Sequence Data (SeqCode), which considers genome sequences as type material for naming species, was published in 2022. Members of the ICSP subcommittee for the taxonomy of the phylum Chlamydiae (Chlamydiota) consider that the use of gene sequences as type would benefit the taxonomy of microorganisms that are difficult to culture such as the chlamydiae and other strictly intracellular bacteria. We recommend the registration of new names of uncultured prokaryotes in the SeqCode registry.

Published in New Microbes and New Infections

ISSN: 2052-2975 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Infectious and parasitic diseases
Website: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/new-microbes-and-new-infections

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