Thermotogati
Thermotogati is a kingdom of bacteria. They are united by the presence of an outer sheath-like membrane called a "toga".
Phylogeny
The kingdom contains 3 valid and 2 candididate phyla:Notes:
- "Acetithermota" phylum as recorded by LPSN contains only one genus, "Candidatus Acetithermum". NCBI considers it a synonym of "Bipolaricaulota" per Hao et al. 2018.
- Neither LTP nor GTDB resolves current Thermotogati as a monophyletic group. The smallest group that includes all definitionally included phyla and sister groups are presented. Thermotogati and its now included phyla are shown in bold.
- Phylogenies below the phylum level are available on the pages for these individual phyla.
- The trees are extracted from phylum trees in pages The All-Species Living Tree Project and Branching order of bacterial phyla (Genome Taxonomy Database, 2018). They are subject to the disclaimers on these pages.
Hao et al., using a CheckM genome tree constructed out of 43 marker genes, instead finds that "Bipolaricaulota" branches between Thermotogota and Synergistota, with Deinococcota branching relatively far away.