Chromatiaceae: NCBI 1046, [family]

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| Chromatiaceae| Chromatiaceae Bavendamm 1924 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Imhoff 1984| Chromatiaceae Bavendamm 1924 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Sisinthy et al. 2017| purple sulfur bacteria| Thiocapsaceae| Thiocapsaceae Bavendamm 1924

1. Water quality: In certain environments, such as lakes, ponds, or wastewater treatment systems, the presence of Chromatiaceae bacteria can contribute to the biogeochemical cycling of sulfur compounds and other nutrients. While this is not directly harmful to humans, changes in water quality or nutrient levels in aquatic ecosystems could have indirect effects on human health, such as altered aquatic biodiversity or impacts on drinking water sources.

2. Sulfur metabolism: Chromatiaceae bacteria play important roles in sulfur metabolism and cycling, which can have implications for the production and transformation of sulfur-containing compounds in aquatic environments. While this is primarily of ecological significance, certain sulfur compounds produced by microbial activity could potentially have toxic effects on humans if present in high concentrations in drinking water or food sources.

3. Ecological balance: Chromatiaceae bacteria contribute to the microbial communities and food webs in aquatic ecosystems, interacting with other organisms and influencing ecosystem dynamics. Changes in the abundance or activity of Chromatiaceae bacteria, such as due to environmental disturbances or pollution, could have cascading effects on ecosystem health and services, which may indirectly impact human well-being.

Other Sources for more information:

• Immune Epitope Database
• The NCBI taxonomy database
• UniProt
• Immune Epitope Taxonomy Database (IEDB)
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Legend

• The interactions are based on data from 1000 healthy individuals using shotgun 10M reads Precision Biome, a provider in full conformity to EU regulations for health information
• The width of the lines indicates R² (the coefficient of determination)
• Green indicates positive slope
• Red indicates negative
• Interactions are not two way because incidence of each bacteria are different

Chromatiaceae impacts on other bacteria of the same rank

R2	Slope	Tax Name	Parent Chart

Other bacteria of the same rank impacting Chromatiaceae

R2	Slope	Tax Name	Parent Chart
0.27141767740249634	0.42492347955703735	Treponemataceae	Parent Taxa