Moorella (bacterium)

Not to be confused with Moorella (fungus) or Moorella (wasp).

Moorella
Scientific classification
Domain:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Bacillota
Class:
Clostridia
Order:
Moorellales
Family:
Moorellaceae
Genus:
Moorella

Collins et al. 1994 non Rao & Rao 1964[1]
Type species
Moorella thermoacetica
(Fontaine et al. 1942) Collins et al. 1994
Species[2]
Synonyms
  • Neomoorella Gtari & Ventura 2025

Moorella is a genus of bacteria belonging to the phylum Bacillota.[3]

These bacteria are thermophilic, anaerobic and endospore-forming and many species of this genus have been isolated from hot springs. Some of these species were formerly included within the genus Clostridium, but after a taxonomic rearrangement of the class Clostridia, a phylogenetically distinct genus was identified, which was named Moorella in honor of the American microbiologist W.E.C. Moore.[3]

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)[1] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).[2]

16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024[4][5][6] 120 marker proteins based GTDB 10-RS226[7][8][9]
Moorella

M. caeni Santaella, Sousa & Stams 2023

M. thermoacetica (Fontaine et al. 1942) Collins et al. 1994

M. glycerini Slobodkin et al. 1997

M. mulderi Balk et al. 2005

M. stamsii Alves et al. 2013

M. humiferrea Nepomnyashchaya et al. 2012

M. sulfitireducens Slobodkina et al. 2023

Moorella

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Moorella in LPSN; Freese, H. M.; Meier-Kolthoff, J. P.; Sardà Carbasse, J.; Afolayan, A. O.; Göker, M. (29 October 2025). "TYGS and LPSN in 2025: a Global Core Biodata Resource for genome-based classification and nomenclature of prokaryotes within DSMZ Digital Diversity". Nucleic Acids Research. 53: D1 – D12. doi:10.1093/nar/gkaf1110.
  2. ^ a b Schoch CL; et al. "Moorella". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. Retrieved 2025-06-05.
  3. ^ a b Collins, M. D.; Lawson, P. A.; Willems, A.; Cordoba, J. J.; Fernandez-Garayzabal, J.; Garcia, P.; Cai, J.; Hippe, H.; Farrow, J. A. E. (1994). "The Phylogeny of the Genus Clostridium: Proposal of Five New Genera and Eleven New Species Combinations". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 44 (4): 812–826. doi:10.1099/00207713-44-4-812. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 7981107.
  4. ^ "The LTP". Retrieved 10 December 2024.
  5. ^ "LTP_all tree in newick format". Retrieved 10 December 2024.
  6. ^ "LTP_10_2024 Release Notes" (PDF). Retrieved 10 December 2024.
  7. ^ "GTDB release 10-RS226". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
  8. ^ "bac120_r226.sp_label". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
  9. ^ "Taxon History". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
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