Candidatus Anthektikosiphon siderophilum OHK22, a New Member of the Chloroflexi Family Herpetosiphonaceae from Oku-okuhachikurou Onsen

Lewis M Ward; Woodward W Fischer; Shawn E McGlynn

doi:10.1264/jsme2.ME20030

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Candidatus Anthektikosiphon siderophilum OHK22, a New Member of the Chloroflexi Family Herpetosiphonaceae from Oku-okuhachikurou Onsen

Lewis M Ward, Woodward W Fischer, Shawn E McGlynn

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Keywords: chloroflexota, Herpetosiphon, predatory bacteria, aerobic respiration, metagenomics

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2020 Volume 35 Issue 3 Article ID: ME20030

DOI https://doi.org/10.1264/jsme2.ME20030

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Abstract

We report the draft metagenome-assembled genome of a member of the Chloroflexi family Herpetosiphonaceae from microbial biofilms developed in a circumneutral, iron-rich hot spring in Japan. This taxon represents a novel genus and species—here proposed as Candidatus Anthektikosiphon siderophilum—that expands the known taxonomic and genetic diversity of the Herpetosiphonaceae and helps orient the evolutionary history of key traits like photosynthesis and aerobic respiration in the Chloroflexi.

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