Microgenomates

{{Short description|Supergroup of bacteria}}

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The Microgenomatota or 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" and named OP11.{{Cite journal|last1=Hugenholtz|first1=Philip|last2=Pitulle|first2=Christian|last3=Hershberger|first3=Karen L.|last4=Pace|first4=Norman R.|date=January 1998|title=Novel Division Level Bacterial Diversity in a Yellowstone Hot Spring|journal=Journal of Bacteriology|volume=180|issue=2|pages=366–376|doi=10.1128/JB.180.2.366-376.1998|issn=0021-9193|pmid=9440526|pmc=106892}}

The group was later split into the additional bacterial phyla Absconditabacteria (SR1) and Parcubacteria (OD1){{Cite journal|last1=Harris|first1=J. Kirk|last2=Kelley|first2=Scott T.|last3=Pace|first3=Norman R.|date=February 2004|title=New Perspective on Uncultured Bacterial Phylogenetic Division OP11|journal=Applied and Environmental Microbiology|volume=70|issue=2|pages=845–849|doi=10.1128/AEM.70.2.845-849.2004|issn=0099-2240|pmid=14766563|pmc=348892|bibcode=2004ApEnM..70..845H }} and then into over 11 more bacterial phyla,{{Cite journal|last1=Brown|first1=Christopher T.|last2=Hug|first2=Laura A.|last3=Thomas|first3=Brian C.|last4=Sharon|first4=Itai|last5=Castelle|first5=Cindy J.|last6=Singh|first6=Andrea|last7=Wilkins|first7=Michael J.|last8=Wrighton|first8=Kelly C.|last9=Williams|first9=Kenneth H.|last10=Banfield|first10=Jillian F.|date=July 2015|title=Unusual biology across a group comprising more than 15% of domain Bacteria|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14486|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=523|issue=7559|pages=208–211|doi=10.1038/nature14486|pmid=26083755|bibcode=2015Natur.523..208B|osti=1512215|s2cid=4397558|issn=1476-4687}}{{Cite journal|last1=Anantharaman|first1=Karthik|last2=Brown|first2=Christopher T.|last3=Hug|first3=Laura A.|last4=Sharon|first4=Itai|last5=Castelle|first5=Cindy J.|last6=Probst|first6=Alexander J.|last7=Thomas|first7=Brian C.|last8=Singh|first8=Andrea|last9=Wilkins|first9=Michael J.|last10=Karaoz|first10=Ulas|last11=Brodie|first11=Eoin L.|date=December 2016|title=Thousands of microbial genomes shed light on interconnected biogeochemical processes in an aquifer system|journal=Nature Communications|language=en|volume=7|issue=1|pages=13219|doi=10.1038/ncomms13219|issn=2041-1723|pmc=5079060|pmid=27774985|bibcode=2016NatCo...713219A}} including Curtisbacteria, Daviesbacteria, Levybacteria, Gottesmanbacteria, Woesebacteria, Amesbacteria, Shapirobacteria, Roizmanbacteria, Beckwithbacteria, Collierbacteria, Pacebacteria.