The Microgenomates are a proposed supergroup of bacterial
candidate phyla in the
Candidate Phyla Radiation.
Organisms from the Microgenomates group have never been cultured in a lab; rather they have only been detected in the environment through genetic sequencing.
The Microgenomates group was originally discovered from sequences retrieved from the
Yellowstone National Park hot spring "
Obsidian Pool
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" and named OP11.
The group was later split into the additional bacterial phyla
Absconditabacteria (SR1) and
Parcubacteria (OD1) and then into over 11 more
bacterial phyla,
including
Curtisbacteria,
Daviesbacteria,
Levybacteria,
Gottesmanbacteria,
Woesebacteria,
Amesbacteria,
Shapirobacteria,
Roizmanbacteria,
Beckwithbacteria,
Collierbacteria,
Pacebacteria.
References
Bacteria phyla
Yellowstone National Park
Candidatus taxa
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