Comamonadaceae
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| Comamonadaceae | |
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| Leptothrix ssp. under the microscope | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Proteobacteria |
| Class: | Beta Proteobacteria |
| Order: | Burkholderiales |
| Family: | Comamonadaceae |
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Acidovorax |
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The Comamonadaceae are a family of the Beta Proteobacteria. Like all Proteobacteria, they are Gram-negative. They are aerobic and most of the species are motile via flagella and curved rod-shaped[1].
[edit] References
- ^ Garrity, George M.; Brenner, Don J.; Krieg, Noel R.; Staley, James T. (eds.) (2005). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Volume Two: The Proteobacteria, Part C: The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria. New York, New York: Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-24145-6.
Willems A., J. De Ley, M. Gillis, and K. Kersters. Comamonadaceae, a New Family Encompassing the Acidovorans rRNA Complex, Including Variovorax paradoxus gen. nov.,comb. nov. for Alcaligenes paradoxus (Davis 1969). 1991. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 41: 445-450 http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/reprint/41/3/445.pdf
[edit] External links
- Comamonadaceae J.P. Euzéby: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature
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