Proposal of the suffix –ota to denote phyla. Addendum to ‘Proposal to include the rank of phylum in the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes’

William B. Whitman; Aharon Oren; Maria Chuvochina; Milton S. da Costa; George M. Garrity; Fred A. Rainey; Ramon Rossello-Mora; Bernhard Schink; Iain Sutcliffe; Martha E. Trujillo; Stefano Ventura

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Proposal of the suffix –ota to denote phyla. Addendum to ‘Proposal to include the rank of phylum in the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes’

William B. Whitman¹, Aharon Oren², Maria Chuvochina³, Milton S. da Costa⁴, George M. Garrity⁵, Fred A. Rainey⁶, Ramon Rossello-Mora⁷, Bernhard Schink⁸, Iain Sutcliffe⁹, Martha E. Trujillo¹⁰ and Stefano Ventura¹¹
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¹ Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-2605, USA ² Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, The Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Jerusalem 9190401, Israel ³ Australian Centre for Ergogenomics, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, 4072, Australia ⁴ Microbiology Unit, BIOCANT Biotechnological Park, Cantanhede 3060-197, Portugal ⁵ Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Biomedical Physical Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-4320, USA ⁶ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alaska, Anchorage, AK 99508, USA ⁷ Department of Ecology and Marine Resources, Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA UIB-CSIC), Esporles 07190, Spain ⁸ Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz D-78457, Germany ⁹ Department of Applied Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST, UK ¹⁰ Departamento de Microbiología y Genética, Campus Miguel de Unamuno, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca 37007, Spain ¹¹ National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Ecosystem Study, Sesto Fiorentino I-50019, Italy
*Correspondence: William B. Whitman, [email protected]
Published: 01 March 2018 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002593

Abstract

As an addendum to the earlier proposal to include the rank of phylum in the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (Oren et al., Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015;65:4284–4287) we propose the suffix –ota to denote phyla, replacing the somewhat awkward –aeota. We therefore present a new draft modified version of Rule 8 of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes and a corrected list of names of phyla to be considered for validation after approval of the proposal to include the rank of phylum in the Code.

Received: 29/09/2017
Accepted: 11/01/2018
Published Online: 01/03/2018

Keyword(s): names , phylum and Prokaryotic Code

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