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The discovery of the photosynthetic flexibacteria was made by Pierson and Castenholz (1971). The Chloroflexaceae was proposed as a family (Trüper, 1976) with affinities to the Chlorobiaceae. The closer relationship with the green bacteria was signified by grouping both families under the suborder Chlorobiineae. The family was defined as including: phototrophic bacteria with filamentous form, gliding motility, Gram-negative, flexible cell walls, and bacteriochlorophyll a, d, or e. Chloroflexus auran-tiacus (Pierson and Castenholz, 1974) is still the only genus and species in this category described on the basis of axenic cultures. Chloronema (Dubinina and Gorlenko, 1975) and Oscillochloris (Gorlenko and Pivovarova, 1977) are two genera subsequently described and assigned to the Chloroflexaceae, but neither description is based on cultured material.
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Castenholz, R.W., Pierson, B.K. (1981). Isolation of Members of the Family Chloroflexaceae. In: Starr, M.P., Stolp, H., Trüper, H.G., Balows, A., Schlegel, H.G. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-13187-9_17
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