100‐year‐old enigma solved: identification, genomic characterization and biogeography of the yet uncultured Planctomyces bekefii

• Published in: Environmental microbiology Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 198 - 211
• Main Authors: Dedysh, Svetlana N., Henke, Petra, Ivanova, Anastasia A., Kulichevskaya, Irina S., Philippov, Dmitriy A., Meier‐Kolthoff, Jan P., Göker, Markus, Huang, Sixing, Overmann, Jörg
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, USA John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.01.2020; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Aquatic habitats; Bacteria; Biodegradation; Biogeography; Blooms; Eutrophic lakes; Eutrophication; Fluorescence; Fluorescence in situ hybridization; Freshwater; Freshwater environments; Freshwater lakes; Gene sequencing; Genomes; Hybridization; Identification; Inland water environment; Nucleotide sequence; Pectin; Peptides; Phylogeny; Polysaccharides; Prokaryotes; rRNA 16S; Saccharides; Seasonal variations; Sequencing

Summary The first representative of the phylum Planctomycetes, Planctomyces bekefii, was described nearly one century ago. This morphologically conspicuous freshwater bacterium is a rare example of as‐yet‐uncultivated prokaryotes with validly published names and unknown identity. We report the resul...