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The Class Holophagaceae

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The class Holophagae is a member of the phylum Acidobacteria, comprises gram-negative bacteria, and contains two orders, Holophagales and Acanthopleuribacterales (Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 58:2597–2601, 2008). The order Holophagales consists of a single family, Holophagaceae, which contains two genera, Holophaga (Arch Microbiol 162:85–90, 1994) and Geothrix (Int J Syst Bacteriol 49:1615–1622, 1999), that are strict anaerobes. The order Acanthopleuribacterales also consists of a single family, Acanthopleuribacteraceae, which contains a single genus, Acanthopleuribacter (Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 58:2597–2601, 2008) that is an obligate aerobe. Each of these three described genera in Holophagae contains a single species.

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Abbreviations

ASW:

Artificial seawater

NTA:

Nitrilotriacetic acid

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We would like to thank Tomohiro Sekigawa for support of database searching.

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  1. Biological Resource Center, National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NBRC), 2-5-8 Kazusakamatari, Kisarazu, Chiba, 292-0818, Japan

    Yukiyo Fukunaga

  2. Biological Resource Center, National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NBRC), 2-49-10, Nishihara, Tokyo, Japan

    Natsuko Ichikawa

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  1. Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Eugene Rosenberg

  2. Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Edward F. DeLong

  3. Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA

    Edward F. DeLong

  4. Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

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  5. Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany

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  6. Laboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, Center for Health Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Fukunaga, Y., Ichikawa, N. (2014). The Class Holophagaceae . In: Rosenberg, E., DeLong, E.F., Lory, S., Stackebrandt, E., Thompson, F. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38954-2_161

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