Members of the
Chordibacter genus are predicted to be aerobic and heterotrophic marine bacteria dwelling in surface waters. A total of 17 MAGs belonging to this genus were recovered in the 2011, 2012, 2016, and 2018 Helgoland spring blooms. This genome is estimated to be 92.7% complete with 2.2% redundancy. It has a GC content of 44.3% and a genome size of 2.12 Mbp. The 5S, 16S, and 23S rRNA genes were identified in the genome.
Chordibacter forsetii belongs to the family MB11C04, order
Opitutales, class
Verrucomicrobiae, and phylum
Verrucomicrobiota. Formerly identified as genus MB11C04 and species MB11C04. A FISH probe for this family has been developed (probe c17-1166 from
Orellana et al., 2022) and previously used to describe that members of this genus are short rods of length and width 0.9 and 0.8 µm respectively (
Orellana et al., 2022). The type species is
Chordibacter forsetii and the corresponding type material is the metagenome-assembled genome ERZ814923, which shows 99.3% ANI to a previously described representative of the MB11C04 family (MB1 from
Orellana et al., 2022).