Genome-based analyses of family Oxalobacteraceae reveal the taxonomic classification
Tengfei Ma1, Han Xue1, Chungen Piao1
1Key Laboratory of Forest Protection of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Ecology and Nature Conservation Institute, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China.
Abstract:
Family Oxalobacteraceae is known for the indicator of bacterial diversity in the environment and many of which are important beneficial bacteria. Previous studies on the taxonomic structure of family Oxalobacteraceae mostly relied on 16S rRNA gene analysis, or core-genome phylogeny of a limited number of species and resulted in taxonomic confusion within several genera. Developments in sequencing technologies have allowed more genome sequences to be obtained, enabling the revision of family Oxalobacteraceae. Here, we report a comprehensive analysis of phylogenomic trees, concatenated protein and up-to-date bacterial core gene phylogenetic trees, and genomic metrics for genus demarcation on 135 genomes of Oxalobacteraceae species to elucidate their interrelationships. Following this framework for classification of species in family Oxalobacteraceae, all the proposed genera formed monophyletic lineages in the phylogenomic trees and could also be clearly separated from others in the genomic similarity indexes of average amino acid identity, percentage of conserved proteins and core-proteome average amino acid identity.
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