Slackia

Slackia is a genus of Actinomycetota, in the family Coriobacteriaceae.^[1][3] Slackia is named after the microbiologist Geoffrey Slack.^[4]

Slackia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Bacillati
Phylum:	Actinomycetota
Class:	Coriobacteriia
Order:	Eggerthellales
Family:	Eggerthellaceae
Genus:	Slackia Wade et al. 1999[1]
Type species
Slackia exigua (Poco et al. 1996) Wade et al. 1999
Species[2]
S. equolifaciens S. exigua S. faecicanis S. heliotrinireducens S. isoflavoniconvertens S. piriformis

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)^[1] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).^[2]

16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024[5][6][7]	120 marker proteins based GTDB 09-RS220[8][9][10]
Slackia S. exigua S. heliotrinireducens S. isoflavoniconvertens S. equolifaciens S. faecicanis S. piriformis	Slackia S. exigua (Poco et al. 1996) Wade et al. 1999 S. heliotrinireducens corrig. (Lanigan 1983) Wade et al. 1999 S. isoflavoniconvertens Matthies, Blaut & Braune 2009 S. equolifaciens Jin et al. 2010 S. faecicanis Lawson et al. 2005 S. piriformis Nagai, Watanabe & Morotomi 2010

See also

• List of bacteria genera
• List of bacterial orders