Aurantimonadaceae
| Aurantimonadaceae | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Proteobacteria |
| Class: | Alphaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Rhizobiales |
| Family: | Aurantimonadaceae Denner et al. 2003 |
| Genera and Species[1] | |
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Aurantimonas
Fulvimarina
Martelella
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The Aurantimonadaceae are a small family of marine bacteria. There are three known species. Aurantimonas coralicida causes a white plague in corals, progressively destroying their tissues and leaving an expanding area that appears bleached. It has been epidemic in the Caribbean. The individual bacteria are rod-shaped, with polar flagella, and adhere to form branching chains.[2] Fulvimarina pelagi was isolated from seawater, and takes the form of non-motile rods.[3]
Both species are obligate aerobes, and obtain their nourishment chemoheterotrophically. They test positive for oxidase and catalase, and contain carotenoid pigments, possibly to protect against solar radiation.
[edit] Etymology
The name Aurantimonas derives from:
New Latin adjective aurantus, orange-coloured; Greek feminine gender noun monas (μονάς / μονάδα), a unit; New Latin feminine gender noun Aurantimonas, orange-coloured unicellular organism.[4]
Members of the genus Aurantimonas can be referred to as aurantimonads (viz. Trivialisation of names).
[edit] References
- ^ "List of Prokaryotic Names with Standing in Nomenclature". http://www.bacterio.cict.fr/classifgenerafamilies.html#Aurantimonadaceae. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
- ^ Denner et al. (2003). Aurantimonas coralicida gen. nov., sp. nov., the causative agent of white plague type II on Caribbean scleractinian corals. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 53: 1115-1122.
- ^ Cho and Giovannoni. (2003). Fulvimarina pelagi gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine bacterium that forms a deep evolutionary lineage of descent in the order 'Rhizobiales'. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 53: 1853-1859.
- ^ Aurantimonas entry in LPSN [Euzéby, J.P. (1997). "List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet". Int J Syst Bacteriol 47 (2): 590-2. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-2-590. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 9103655. http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/reprint/47/2/590.]
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