Exploring prokaryotic diversity in the genomic era

Table 1 Bacterial phyla with cultured representatives but without representative sequenced genomes

Phylum^*	Genera^*
Acidobacteria	Acidobacterium, Geothrix, Holophaga
Chrysiogenetes	Chrysiogenes
Coprothermobacter^†	Coprothermobacter
Deferribacteres	Deferribacter, Denitrovibrio, Flexistipes, Geovibrio
Dictyoglomus	Dictyoglomus
Gemmimonas	Gemmimonas
Nitrospira	Nitrospira, Leptospirillum, Magnetobacterium, Thermodesulfovibrio
Synergistes^†	Synergistes, Aminobacterium, Aminomonas, Anaerobaculum, Dethiosulfovibrio, Thermanaerovibrio
Thermodesulfobacteria	Thermodesulfobacterium, Desulfatotherma, Geothermobacterium

^* Where possible, the nomenclature of the taxonomic outline for Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology [8] has been used. ^†These phyla are currently misclassified as part of the Firmicutes phylum [8].

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