Lederbergia
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| Lederbergia | |
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| Lederbergia lenta formerly Bacillus lentus on agar plate | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Bacillati |
| Phylum: | Bacillota |
| Class: | Bacilli |
| Order: | Bacillales |
| Family: | Heyndrickxiaceae |
| Genus: | Lederbergia Gupta et al. 2020[1] |
| Type species | |
| Lederbergia galactosidilytica corrig. (Heyndrickx et al. 2004) Gupta et al. 2020 | |
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Lederbergia is a genus of gram-positive or Gram-variable, rod-shaped bacteria in the family Bacillaceae within the order Bacillales.[3][4] The type species for this genus is Lederbergia galactosidilyticus.[1]
Lederbergia is composed of species originally belonging to the genus Bacillus, whose complicated evolutionary interspecies relationships has been long under scrutiny by the scientific community.[5][6] The polyphyletic nature of the genus occurred as a result of the vague criteria used to assign species into the clade.[7] Multiple studies focused on phylogenetic and comparative genomic analyses set out to clarify the taxonomy of the genus resulting in the restriction of the genus Bacillus to only include species closely related to Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus cereus[8][3] as well as transfer many species into new novel genera such as Virgibacillus, Solibacillus, Brevibacillus and Ectobacillus.[9][10][11][3]
The name Lederbergia was named after the American microbiologist Professor Esther Miriam Zimmer Lederberg (1922–2006) to celebrate her pioneering contributions to the fields of bacterial genetics and microbiology.[3]