{{Short description|Genus of bacteria}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Slackia | authority = Wade ''et al.'' 1999<ref name=LPSN/> | type_species = ''Slackia exigua'' | type_species_authority = (Poco et al. 1996) Wade et al. 1999 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision_ref = <ref name=NCBI/> | subdivision = * ''S. equolifaciens'' * ''S. exigua'' * ''S. faecicanis'' * ''S. heliotrinireducens'' * ''S. isoflavoniconvertens'' * ''S. piriformis'' }}

'''''Slackia''''' is a genus of Actinomycetota, in the family Eggerthellaceae.<ref name="LPSN"/><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Parker|first1=Charles Thomas|last2=Taylor|first2=Dorothea|last3=Garrity|first3=George M|editor1-first=Charles Thomas|editor1-last=Parker|editor2-first=George M|editor2-last=Garrity|title=Nomenclature Abstract for Slackia Wade et al. 1999 emend. Nagai et al. 2010.|journal=The NamesforLife Abstracts|year=2010|doi=10.1601/nm.5758|language=en}}</ref> ''Slackia'' is named after the microbiologist Geoffrey Slack.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Wade|first1=William G.|last2=Dewhirst|first2=Floyd E.|title=Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria |chapter=''Slackia'' |date=2015|pages=1–5|doi=10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00221|publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Ltd|isbn=9781118960608|language=en}}</ref>

==Phylogeny== The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)<ref name=LPSN>{{lpsn3|genus/slackia|Slackia}}</ref> and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).<ref name=NCBI>{{cite web |author=C.L. Schoch |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?command=show&mode=tree&id=84108&lvl=3 |title=Slackia |access-date=2025-02-28 |publisher=National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database |display-authors=et al.}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" |- ! colspan=1 | 16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024<ref>{{cite web |title=The LTP |url=https://imedea.uib-csic.es/mmg/ltp/#LTP| access-date=10 December 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=LTP_all tree in newick format |url=https://imedea.uib-csic.es/mmg/ltp/wp-content/uploads/ltp/LTP_all_10_2024.ntree |access-date=10 December 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=LTP_10_2024 Release Notes |url=https://imedea.uib-csic.es/mmg/ltp/wp-content/uploads/ltp/LTP_10_2024_release_notes.pdf |access-date=10 December 2024}}</ref> ! colspan=1 | 120 marker proteins based GTDB 10-RS226<ref name="about">{{cite web |title=GTDB release 10-RS226 |url=https://gtdb.ecogenomic.org/about#4%7C |website=Genome Taxonomy Database|access-date=1 May 2025}}</ref><ref name="tree_bac">{{cite web |title=bac120_r226.sp_label |url=https://data.gtdb.ecogenomic.org/releases/release226/226.0/auxillary_files/bac120_r226.sp_labels.tree |website=Genome Taxonomy Database|access-date=1 May 2025}}</ref><ref name="taxon_history">{{cite web |title=Taxon History |url=https://gtdb.ecogenomic.org/taxon_history/ |website=Genome Taxonomy Database|access-date=1 May 2025}}</ref> |- | style="vertical-align:top| {{Clade | style=font-size:90%;line-height:80% |label1=''Slackia'' |1={{clade |1={{clade |1=''S. exigua'' |2=''S. heliotrinireducens'' }} |2={{clade |1=''S. isoflavoniconvertens'' |2={{clade |1=''S. equolifaciens'' |2={{clade |1=''S. faecicanis'' |2=''S. piriformis'' }} }} }} }} }} | {{Clade | style=font-size:90%;line-height:80% |label1=''Slackia'' |1={{clade |1={{clade |1=''S. exigua'' <small>(Poco et al. 1996) Wade et al. 1999</small> |2=''S. heliotrinireducens'' <small>corrig. (Lanigan 1983) Wade et al. 1999</small> }} |2={{clade |1=''S. isoflavoniconvertens'' <small>Matthies, Blaut & Braune 2009</small> |2={{clade |1=''S. equolifaciens'' <small>Jin et al. 2010</small> |2={{clade |1=''S. faecicanis'' <small>Lawson et al. 2005</small> |2=''S. piriformis'' <small>Nagai, Watanabe & Morotomi 2010</small> }} }} }} }} }} |}

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