''Demequina'' is a genus of
bacteria
Bacteria (; : bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one Cell (biology), biological cell. They constitute a large domain (biology), domain of Prokaryote, prokaryotic microorganisms. Typically a few micr ...
in the phylum
Actinomycetota
The Actinomycetota (or Actinobacteria) are a diverse phylum of Gram-positive bacteria with high GC content. They can be terrestrial or aquatic. They are of great importance to land flora because of their contributions to soil systems. In soil t ...
.
Etymology
The name ''Demequina'' derives from:
:
Neo-Latin
Neo-LatinSidwell, Keith ''Classical Latin-Medieval Latin-Neo Latin'' in ; others, throughout. (also known as New Latin and Modern Latin) is the style of written Latin used in original literary, scholarly, and scientific works, first in Italy d ...
feminine gender
In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related to the real-world qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns. In languages wit ...
noun ''Demequina'', arbitrary name derived from
demethylmenaquinone, an unusual quinone found in this organism.
Species
''Demequina'' comprises the following species:
* ''
D. activiva''
Park ''et al''. 2015
* ''
D. aestuarii D. or d. may refer to, usually as an abbreviation:
* Don (honorific), a form of address in Spain, Portugal, Italy, and their former overseas empires, usually given to nobles or other individuals of high social rank.
* Date of death, as an abbreviati ...
''
Yi ''et al''. 2007
* ''
D. aurantiaca''
Ue ''et al''. 2011
* ''
D. flava''
Hamada ''et al''. 2013
* ''
D. gelatinilytica''
(Hamada ''et al''. 2015) Nouioui ''et al''. 2018
* ''
D. globuliformis''
Ue ''et al''. 2011
* ''
D. iriomotensis''
(Hamada ''et al''. 2015) Nouioui ''et al''. 2018
* ''
D. litorisediminis''
Park ''et al''. 2016
* ''
D. lutea''
Finster ''et al''. 2009
* ''
D. mangrovi''
(Hamada ''et al''. 2012) Nouioui ''et al''. 2018
* ''
D. maris''
Nouioui ''et al''. 2018
* ''
D. oxidasica''
Ue ''et al''. 2011
* ''
D. pelophila''
(Hamada ''et al''. 2015) Nouioui ''et al''. 2018
* ''
D. phytophila''
Nouioui ''et al''. 2018
* ''
D. rhizosphaerae''
(Hamada ''et al''. 2015) Nouioui ''et al''. 2018
* ''
D. salsinemoris''
Matsumoto ''et al''. 2010
* ''
D. sediminicola''
Hamada ''et al''. 2013
* ''
D. sediminis''
(Hamada ''et al''. 2017) Yang and Zhi 2020
* ''
D. silvatica''
Nouioui ''et al''. 2018
* ''
D. soli''
(Hamada ''et al''. 2015) Nouioui ''et al''. 2018
* ''
D. subtropica''
(Hamada ''et al''. 2015) Nouioui ''et al''. 2018
Phylogeny
The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the
List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature
List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) is an online database that maintains information on the naming and taxonomy of prokaryotes, following the taxonomy requirements and rulings of the International Code of Nomenclatu ...
(LPSN)
and the phylogeny is based on 16S rRNA-based LTP release 106 by
The All-Species Living Tree Project
The All-Species Living Tree' Project is a collaboration between various academic groups/institutes, such as ARB, SILVA rRNA database project, and LPSN, with the aim of assembling a database of 16S rRNA sequences of all validly published species ...
All-Species Living Tree Project
The All-Species Living Tree' Project is a collaboration between various academic groups/institutes, such as ARB, SILVA rRNA database project, and LPSN, with the aim of assembling a database of 16S rRNA sequences of all validly published species ...
.
See also
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Bacterial taxonomy
Bacterial taxonomy is subfield of taxonomy devoted to the classification of bacteria specimens into taxonomic ranks. Archaeal taxonomy are governed by the same rules.
In the scientific classification established by Carl Linnaeus, each species is ...
*
Microbiology
Microbiology () is the branches of science, scientific study of microorganisms, those being of unicellular organism, unicellular (single-celled), multicellular organism, multicellular (consisting of complex cells), or non-cellular life, acellula ...
References
Bacteria genera
Micrococcales
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