Candidate division

A candidate division, candidate phylum or candidate division-level is a lineage of prokaryotic organisms for which until recently no cultured representatives have been found, but evidence of the existence of the clade has been obtained by 16S rRNA and metagenomic analysis of environmental samples.[1] The term candidatus in fact means a species for which there is insufficient information to call it a new species according to the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria[2]

For a list of various candidate divisions, see Bacterial phyla.

Examples of Candidate division bacteria
Main article: List of taxa with candidatus status § Phyla

See also

References
  1. Hugenholtz P, Goebel BM, Pace NR (September 1998). "Impact of culture-independent studies on the emerging phylogenetic view of bacterial diversity". Journal of Bacteriology. 180 (18): 4765–74. PMC 107498. PMID 9733676.
  2. Frederiksen W (1995). "Judicial commission of the international committee on systematic bacteriology: Minutes of the meetings, 2 and 6 July 1994, Prague, Czech Republic" (PDF). Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 45 (1): 195–196. doi:10.1099/00207713-45-1-195.
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