Mycobacteriales Explained

The Mycobacteriales are an order of bacteria. The current description is genome-based, per Gupta 2019 emendation. Most members produce mycolic acids.^[1]

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN).

Terminology

Mycolata has been used as a non-taxonomic term for mycolic acid-containing Actinobacteria. Mycobacteriales includes all such species, but it also includes some without mycolic acid, making these two terms imperfect, paraphyletic, aliases.^[9]

See also

• Bacterial taxonomy
• List of bacterial orders
• List of bacteria genera

Notes and References

1. Gupta . Radhey S. . Commentary: Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria . Frontiers in Microbiology . 22 February 2019 . 10 . 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00206 . Mycolic acids are important constituents of the cell envelopes of most members.. free . 6395429 .
2. Nouioui I, Carro L, García-López M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Markus Göker M . 2018 . Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria . Front. Microbiol. . 9 . 2007 . 30186281 . 6113628 . 10.3389/fmicb.2018.02007. free .
3. Web site: The LTP . 20 November 2023.
4. Web site: LTP_all tree in newick format. 20 November 2023.
5. Web site: LTP_08_2023 Release Notes. 20 November 2023.
6. Web site: GTDB release 08-RS214 . Genome Taxonomy Database. 10 May 2023.
7. Web site: bac120_r214.sp_label . Genome Taxonomy Database. 10 May 2023.
8. Web site: Taxon History . Genome Taxonomy Database. 10 May 2023.
9. Chun . J . Kang . S-O . Hah . Y C . Goodfellow . M . Phylogeny of mycolic acid-containing actinomycetes . Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology . September 1996 . 17 . 3-4 . 205–213 . 10.1007/BF01574694. free .