Table 1

Bacterial phyla with cultured representatives but without representative sequenced genomes

Phylum^*

Genera^*

Acidobacteria

Acidobacterium, Geothrix, Holophaga

Chrysiogenetes

Chrysiogenes

Coprothermobacter^†

Coprothermobacter

Deferribacteres

Deferribacter, Denitrovibrio, Flexistipes, Geovibrio

Dictyoglomus

Dictyoglomus

Gemmimonas

Gemmimonas

Nitrospira

Nitrospira, Leptospirillum, Magnetobacterium, Thermodesulfovibrio

Synergistes^†

Synergistes, Aminobacterium, Aminomonas, Anaerobaculum, Dethiosulfovibrio, Thermanaerovibrio

Thermodesulfobacteria

Thermodesulfobacterium, Desulfatotherma, Geothermobacterium

^* Where possible, the nomenclature of the taxonomic outline for Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology [8] has been used. ^†These phyla are currently misclassified as part of the Firmicutes phylum [8].

Hugenholtz Genome Biology 2002 3:reviews0003.1   doi:10.1186/gb-2002-3-2-reviews0003