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The Family Pasteuriaceae

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The species of the genus Pasteuria are rare examples in bacteriological systematics as their description is solely based on morphology, ultrastructure, and host relationships. As none of them can be grown axenically, the type strains of species have not been deposited in public service collections; most of them can be grown in the laboratory together with its host. Today, after the establishment of the Candidatus category, novel taxa are not described as species but receive the Candidatus status; e.g., Phylogenetically, Pasteuria forms a monophyletic clade within the Firmicutes, branching next the members of the family Thermoactinosporaceae. Recent literature on Pasteuria concentrates on bacterium-host relationships and ecology, and this contribution adds some of this information to the excellent contribution of Sayre and Starr, revised by Dickson et al. (2009) in Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edition.

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

    Erko Stackebrandt

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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

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

    Stephen Lory

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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

    Fabiano Thompson

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Stackebrandt, E. (2014). The Family Pasteuriaceae . In: Rosenberg, E., DeLong, E.F., Lory, S., Stackebrandt, E., Thompson, F. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30120-9_347

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