Fibrobacterota

Fibrobacterota
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	; Garrity & Holt 2021
Classes
	Chitinispirillia; Chitinivibrionia; Fibrobacteria;
Synonyms
	"Fibrobacteraeota" Oren et al. 2015; "Fibrobacteres" Garrity and Holt 2001; "Fibrobacterota" Whitman et al. 2018; "Raymondbacteria" Anantharaman et al. 2016;

Fibrobacterota is a small bacterial phylum which includes many of the major rumen bacteria, allowing for the degradation of plant-based cellulose in ruminant animals. Members of this phylum were categorized in other phyla. The genus Fibrobacter (the only genus of Fibrobacterota) was removed from the genus Bacteroides in 1988.^[2]

^ Oren A, Garrity GM (2021). "Valid publication of the names of forty-two phyla of prokaryotes". Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 71 (10): 5056. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.005056. PMID 34694987. S2CID 239887308.
^ Montgomery L, Flesher B, Stahl D (1988). "Transfer of Bacteroides succinogenes (Hungate) to Fibrobacter gen. nov. as Fibrobacter succinogenes comb. nov. and description of Fibrobacter intestinalis sp. nov". Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 38 (4): 430–435. doi:10.1099/00207713-38-4-430.

[1] Oren A, Garrity GM (2021). "Valid publication of the names of forty-two phyla of prokaryotes". Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 71 (10): 5056. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.005056. PMID 34694987. S2CID 239887308.

[2] Montgomery L, Flesher B, Stahl D (1988). "Transfer of Bacteroides succinogenes (Hungate) to Fibrobacter gen. nov. as Fibrobacter succinogenes comb. nov. and description of Fibrobacter intestinalis sp. nov". Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 38 (4): 430–435. doi:10.1099/00207713-38-4-430.

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