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The Family Brevinemataceae

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Although originally placed within the phylum Spirochaetes, the extensive genetic diversity of the Spirochaetes as revealed by further phylogenetic analyses, it is now proposed that the four families of this phylum should be elevated to the order-level taxonomic ranks, viz. Spirochaetales, Brevinematales ord. nov., Brachyspiriales ord. nov., and Leptospiriales ord. nov. The type genus of Brevinemataceae is Brevinema, and the type species is Brevinema andersonii (ATCC 43811).

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  1. Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, 69978, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Eugene Rosenberg

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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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Rosenberg, E. (2014). The Family Brevinemataceae . 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_158

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