- Tangaroaeota phyl. nov. (former RBG-13-66-14)

- Ryujiniota phyl. nov. (former UBA6262) and

- Spongiamicota phyl. nov. (former UBA8248)

In summary, we contributed to the understanding of taxonomic and functional diversity in benthic prokaryotic communities across Western Pacific sediments.

... aerobic respiration and photosynthesis in the shallowest sediment layers to heterotrophic carbon utilization, sulphate reduction and methanogenesis in deeper anoxic sediments.

We recovered high-quality metagenome-assembled genomes for all main prokaryotic lineages & proposed names for 3 phyla:

- metagenomics based taxonomy revealed clusters across all samples, that mainly aligned with depth & sediment type

- Thermoproteota & Asgardarchaeota were the most abundant archaeal phyla; Archaea relative abundances > 50% in some samples

- Metabolic capabilities ranged from ...

... there is now (2025) a new rule 72 in the ICNP that says "if ... the proposed name is a synonym of a pro-validly published and pro-legitimate Candidatus name of the same rank, then that Candidatus name must be reused"

Yes, it will be interesting to see how this all plays out - SeqCode vs ICNP.
Using previously introduced names is beneficial indeed, and supports taxonomic stability. It seems that the ICSP has realised that as well ...

Re Minisyncoccota paper #1: Besides the Code controversy, it is a good and longstanding practice to consider previous names, when proposing a new name for a lineage. Unfortunately, these authors did not consider this.

But, there is obviously a controversy brewing when it comes to authors publishing names under the ICNP that are in conflict with #SeqCode validated names. This is possible since the ICSP does not (yet) recognize SeqCode names. Hopefully that will change soon.

Not so fast 😊 , #Patescibacteriota is a validly published phylum name under the #SeqCode and is here to stay ;-)

Btw based on phylogenetic diversity, #Patescibacteriota is the fourth-largest phylum in the bacterial domain 😀

The paper:

- covers nomenclatural types for higher ranks including the phylum Patescibacteriota

- includes genomic characterization, metabolic reconstruction, and biogeographical analysis of Patescibacterium

- explores the occurrence of long gene coding insertions in the 23S rRNA sequences

Hmm seems like bsky is not like Twitter/X once was, not much of a discussion here ... or nobody does amplicon sequencing any more 🤣😱🤔

Big congrats to aprabhu90.bsky.social - this is the 2nd paper from her PhD project! 👏

Have you tried it?

Great 👍

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