Traditionally recognized as environmental bacteria, Planctomycetes have just been linked
recently to human pathology as opportunistic pathogens, arousing a great interest for clinical …

The phylum Planctomycetes comprises bacteria with uncommon features among
prokaryotes, such as cell division by budding, absence of the bacterial tubulin-homolog cell …

Planctomycetes bacteria are ubiquitously distributed across various biospheres and play
key roles in global element cycles. However, few deep-sea Planctomycetes members have …

Access to axenic cultures of Planctomycetes is crucial for further investigating their complex
lifestyle, uncommon cell biology and primary and secondary metabolism. As a contribution …

Planctomycetes are part of the PVC superphylum together with Verrucomicrobia,
Chlamydiae and others. They are budding bacteria with very distinctive characteristics, such …

The purpose of this announcement is to list in the IJSEM those new names and new
combinations that have appeared in effective publications outside of the IJSEM in …

Marine ecosystems serve as global carbon sinks and nutrient source or breeding ground for
aquatic animals. Sponges are ancient parts of these important ecosystems and can be found …

As the most important component of ecosystems, microbial communities play a significant
role in global biogeochemical cycles. Geographical barriers created by topographic …

A Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, pear to oval shaped, rosette forming bacterium with
crateriform structures well distributed on the cell surface designated as strain JC647 T was …

A novel planctomycetal strain, designated ElP T, was isolated from an alga in the shallow
hydrothermal vent system close to Panarea Island in the Tyrrhenian Sea. Cells of strain ElP …