Wolframiiraptoraceae


Citation

Formal styling
Wolframiiraptoraceae Buessecker et al., 2022
Proposed in
Buessecker et al., 2022
SeqCode status
Valid (SeqCode)
Register List
seqco.de/r:slp2ijs4 (validated)
Cannonical URL
https://seqco.de/i:22818

Nomenclature

Rank
Family
Inferred stem
Wolframiiraptor-
Syllabication
Wolf.ra.mi.i.rap.to.ra.ce'ae
Etymology
N.L. masc. n. Wolframiiraptor, type genus of the family; -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Wolframiiraptoraceae, family of the genus Wolframiiraptor
Nomenclatural type
Wolframiiraptor
Nomenclatural status
Validly published under the SeqCode

Taxonomy

Description
Members of this family are associated with thermal aquatic environments, and have been identified from geothermal springs in China, New Zealand and the USA, and a marine hydrothermal vent in the Western Pacific. Phylogenomic inference robustly recovers the genomes of these organisms as a well-supported monophyletic lineage within the order Caldarchaeales, and delineation of these taxa as a family is supported by Relative Evolutionary Divergence (RED) and Average Amino Acid Identity (AAI). AAI values among designated type genomes for species in this family range between 65 and 85 % within proposed genera, and between 49 and 57 % among members of different genera. The distribution of genes required for oxidative phosphorylation indicate that members of the family may either be strict or facultative anaerobes. Sulfide-dependent respiration may also occur in some members of the family, but this trait is not conserved for all genera. Several putative tungsten-dependent ferredoxin oxidoreductases, specifically aldehyde ferredoxin oxidoreductases (AORs), formaldehyde ferredoxin oxidoreductases (FORs) and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate ferredoxin oxidoreductases (GAPORs) are encoded by genomes belonging to this family. 
Classification
Incertae sedis (Archaea) » “Caldarchaeales” » Wolframiiraptoraceae
Parent
“Caldarchaeales” gtdb
Children (4)

Metadata

Outside links and data sources
Search sequences
Local history
Registered by
Palmer, Marike over 2 years ago
Submitted by
Palmer, Marike over 1 year ago
Curators
Validated by
Rodriguez-R, Luis M over 1 year ago

Publications
1

Citation Title
Buessecker et al., 2022, Nature Communications An essential role for tungsten in the ecology and evolution of a previously uncultivated lineage of anaerobic, thermophilic Archaea
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