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The Family Rikenellaceae

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The Prokaryotes

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This recently established family encompasses two genera, Rikenella and Alistipes. Rikenella is monospecific and contains R. microfusus and Alistipes is comprised of A. putredinis, A. finegoldii, A. onderdonkii and A. shahii. The organisms group together based on 16S rRNA gene phylogenies and share general characteristics including an anaerobic metabolism, the formation of rods, and often resistance to 20 % bile. Members of this family seem specialized to the digestive tract of a number of different animals.

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  1. Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, 91 N. Eagleville Road, U-3125, Storrs, CT, 06269, USA

    Joerg Graf

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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

    Edward F. DeLong

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

    Stephen Lory

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

    Erko Stackebrandt

  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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Graf, J. (2014). The Family Rikenellaceae . In: Rosenberg, E., DeLong, E.F., Lory, S., Stackebrandt, E., Thompson, F. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38954-2_134

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