Victivallis vadensis
| Victivallis vadensis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Lentisphaerae |
| Class: | Lentisphaeria |
| Order: | Victivallales |
| Family: | Victivallaceae |
| Genus: | Victivallis |
| Species: | vadensis |
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Victivallis vadensis |
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Victivallis vadensis is a Gram-negative, coccus-shaped, bacteria found in the human digestive tract. It measures approximately 0.5-1.3 micrometers in diameter, is non-motile and chemoorganotrophic, and does not form spores.Victivallis vadensis is strictly anaerobic, as are 90 percent of the bacteria in the human gastrointestinal system.
Victivallis vadensis was originally known as strain CelloT, as it is able to use cellobiose as a carbon source (The Prokaryotes), but was renamed for an area in the Netherlands known as food valley, near the scientists at Wageningen University, who first identified the organism. Victus is Latin for “food,” vallis is Latin for “valley;” “food valley” refers to the Wageningen “Food Valley” in the Netherlands, in which Food Science is one of several popular areas of research. Vada of vadensis refers to Wageningen.
Victavallis vadensis is a facultative anaerobe, like most gut microbes. It has only been sourced from human feces to date and is therefore known only to exist in the human gastrointestinal tract, and is currently the only organism belonging to the order Victivallales and genus Victivallis. Through 16S rRNA sequencing, it has been determined that strain CelloT forms its own cluster in the division Verrumicrobia, and two related but uncultured clones have been found that have a 94% 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity.
The Victavallis vadensis genome contains 4,577,257 bases with 3,541 protein coding sequences, of which 2,031 are functional. G-C bases make up 59.5 percent of the DNA. This bacteria is most closely related to Lentisphaera araneosa with 84.4 percent of the same 16S rRNA. These two organisms are also differentiated based on the environments in which each is found. Lentisphaera spp. are found in sea water, while V. vadensis is found in the human digestive system.
View the latest Victavallis vadensis genetic sequencing data here: GenBank record ABDE02000001.1 GenBank record ABDE02000027.1
Bacteria -> Lentisphaerae -> which includes Oligosphaera ethanolica, Lentisphaera araneosa, and Victivallis vadensis
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