Global InformationFertabacteria information
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Infrakingdom: | CPR group |
| Phylum: | Fertabacteria Dudek et al. 2017 |
Fertabacteria is a candidate bacterial phylum of the Candidate Phyla Radiation, first proposed in 2017 after analysis of a genome from the mouth of a bottlenose dolphin. Members of this phylum are predicted to have been widely under-detected in 16S rRNA gene-based surveys of community composition due to mismatches between commonly used primers and the corresponding primer site. Fertabacteria have been retroactively detected in a variety of environments.