The GTDB is an initiative to establish a standardised microbial taxonomy based on genome phylogeny, primarily funded by an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship.
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy was initially used to decorate the genome tree via tax2tree.
Taxonomic ranks are normalised using PhyloRank and the taxonomy manually curated to remove polyphyletic groups.
[6][7][8][9] General note: Undinarchaeota Huberarchaeota Aenigmatarchaeota Nanohaloarchaeota Nanoarchaeota Altiarchaeota Iainarchaeota Micrarchaeota Hadarchaeota Methanobacteriota B Hydrothermarchaeota Methanobacteriota Thermoplasmatota Halobacteriota Thermoproteota (TACK with reassigned rank) Asgardarchaeota Chloroflexota Dormibacterota Armatimonadota Eremiobacterota Bacillota_E Bacillota_G Bacillota_F ("Halanaerobiaeota") Bacillota_B ("Desulfotomaculota") Bacillota_C ("Selenobacteria") Bacillota_A Bacillota_D Bacillota (s.s.) Actinomycetota Margulisbacteria Cyanobacteriota (incl.
Melainabacteria) Atribacterota Synergistota Dictyoglomota Thermodesulfobiota Coprothermobacterota Caldisericota Thermotogota Wallbacteria Muirbacteria Riflebacteria Mcinerneyibacteriota Fusobacteriota Patescibacteria Bipolaricaulota Deinococcota Goldbacteria Firestonebacteria Elusimicrobiota Desantisbacteria Aerophobota Auribacterota Ratteibacteria Omnitrophota Lindowbacteria Dependentiae Spirochaetota Planctomycetota Chlamydiota Verrucomicrobiota OLB16 ("Hinthialibacterota") Sumerlaeota Poribacteria Abyssobacteria Hydrogenedentota RBG-13-66-14 ("Coatesbacteria") Fermentibacterota Edwardsbacteria Latescibacterota Zixibacteria Krumholzibacteriota Eisenbacteria Gemmatimonadota WOR-3 ("Hydrothermota") Cloacimonadota Fibrobacterota Delongbacteria AABM5-125-24 ("Electryoneota") Marinisomatota Calditrichota Bacteroidota Acidobacteriota SAR324 ("Lambdaproteobacteria") Bdellovibrionota FEN-1099 ("Lernaellota") Desulfobacterota_B ("Binatota") Myxococcota Desulfobacterota_C ("Deferrisomatota") Desulfobacterota_E ("Deferrimicrobiota") Moduliflexota Methylomirabilota Schekmanbacteria Tectomicrobia Nitrospinota Nitrospirota Desulfobacterota_F("Desulfuromonadia") Desulfobacterota Desulfobacterota_D ("Dadabacteria") Calescibacterota ("Calescamantes") Desulfobacterota_G ("Syntrophorhabdota") ?SZUA-79 (Acidulidesulfobacterales", "Acidulodesulfobacteriota" sic) Thermosulfidibacterota Chrysiogenota Deferribacterota Aquificota Campylobacterota Nitrospirota_A ("Leptospirillia", "Leptospirillaeota") Pseudomonadota (s.s.)