The so-called "VGIX01" bacterial phylum from GTDB now has a name :-) First paper from my collaboration with Lei Su, Jiangtao Li, Andreas Teske, and others. Lei spent a year in Aarhus getting started on this work as part of her PhD - more papers to come! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Genomic characterization of the bacterial phylum Candidatus Effluviviacota, a cosmopolitan member of the global seep microbiome | mBio

The newly discovered bacterial phylum Candidatus Effluviviacota is widespread across diverse seepage ecosystems, marine environments, and freshwater environments, with a notable preference for cold se...