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Oscillibacter

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Oscillibacter
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Bacillati
Phylum: Bacillota
Class: Clostridia
Order: Eubacteriales
Family: Oscillospiraceae
Genus: Oscillibacter
Iino et al. 2007
Type species
Oscillibacter valericigenes
Iino et al. 2007
Species[1]

Oscillibacter is a genus of strictly anaerobic, Gram-stain-negative, non-spore-forming, rod-shaped bacteria in the family Oscillospiraceae.[1][2] The type species is Oscillibacter valericigenes. Four species have validly published and correct names.[1]

Description and ecology

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Members of Oscillibacter are fermentative bacteria associated with animal digestive tracts. The type strain of O. valericigenes was isolated from the alimentary canal of a Japanese corbicula clam. Its cells are straight to slightly curved rods, are motile by means of peritrichous flagella, and produce valerate as a major fermentation product from glucose.[2]

Oscillibacter ruminantium was originally isolated from the rumen of cattle. It is also motile by peritrichous flagella and produces butyrate as its major fermentation product under the tested conditions.[3] The type strain of O. acetigenes was isolated from human feces.[4]

Taxonomy

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The name Oscillibacter combines the Latin word oscillum, meaning a swing, with bacter, meaning a rod, and refers to the oscillating movement of cells of the type species.[1] The genus was described in 2007, and an emended description was published in 2020.[5]

Phylogeny

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The phylogenomic tree below is a pruned extract from the bacterial species tree of GTDB release R11-RS232. The GTDB bacterial tree is based on a concatenated alignment of 120 single-copy marker proteins.[6][7][8]

The lettered suffixes distinguish additional GTDB species clusters and do not represent separately validly published species names. O. acetigenes is not represented under its current name in the R11-RS232 species-label tree.[8]

120 marker protein-based phylogeny (GTDB R11-RS232)
Oscillibacter

O. valericigenes_A (GTDB cluster)

O. valericigenes_B (GTDB cluster)

O. hominis

See also

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References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 "Genus: Oscillibacter". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature. Leibniz Institute DSMZ. Retrieved 29 July 2026.
  2. 1 2 Iino, Takao; Mori, Koji; Tanaka, Kenji; Suzuki, Ken-ichiro; Harayama, Shigeaki (2007). "Oscillibacter valericigenes gen. nov., sp. nov., a valerate-producing anaerobic bacterium isolated from the alimentary canal of a Japanese corbicula clam". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 57 (8): 1840–1845. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.64717-0.
  3. Lee, Geun-Hye; Rhee, Moon-Soo; Chang, Dong-Ho; Lee, Jonghwan; Kim, Seil; Yoon, Min Ho; Kim, Byoung-Chan (2013). "Oscillibacter ruminantium sp. nov., isolated from the rumen of Korean native cattle". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 63 (Pt 6): 1942–1946. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.041749-0.
  4. Hitch, Thomas C. A.; Riedel, Thomas; Oren, Aharon; Overmann, Jörg; Lawley, Trevor D.; Clavel, Thomas (2021). "Automated analysis of genomic sequences facilitates high-throughput and comprehensive description of bacteria". ISME Communications. 1 (1) 16. doi:10.1038/s43705-021-00017-z. PMC 9723785. PMID 36732617.
  5. Le Roy, Tiphaine; Van der Smissen, Patrick; Paquot, Adrien; Delzenne, Nathalie; Muccioli, Giulio G.; Collet, Jean-François; Cani, Patrice D. (2020). "Dysosmobacter welbionis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from human faeces and emended description of the genus Oscillibacter". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 70 (9): 4851–4858. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.003547. PMID 31232680.
  6. "About GTDB". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 29 July 2026.
  7. "Announcing GTDB R11-RS232". Genome Taxonomy Database Forum. 15 April 2026. Retrieved 29 July 2026.
  8. 1 2 "bac120_r232.sp_labels.tree". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 29 July 2026.