Rhodobacterales
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| Rhodobacterales | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Proteobacteria |
| Class: | Alphaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Rhodobacterales |
| Families | |
In taxonomy, the Rhodobacterales are an order of the Alphaproteobacteria.[1]
Gene transfer agents are viruslike elements produced by Rhodobacterales which transfer DNA and may be an important factor in their evolution.[2]
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[edit] References
- ^ See the NCBI webpage on Rhodobacterales. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
- ^ Maxmen, A. (2010). "Virus-like particles speed bacterial evolution". Nature. doi:10.1038/news.2010.507.
[edit] Further reading
[edit] Scientific journals
- Lee K-B, Liu C-T, Anzai Y, Kim H, Aono T, Oyaizu H (2005). "The hierarchical system of the 'Alphaproteobacteria': description of Hyphomonadaceae fam. nov., Xanthobacteraceae fam. nov. and Erythrobacteraceae fam. nov". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 55 (Pt 5): 1907–1919. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.63663-0. PMID 16166687.
- Cavalier-Smith, T (2002). "The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 52 (Pt 1): 7–76. PMID 11837318.
- Woese CR, Stackebrandt E, Weisburg WG, Paster BJ, Madigan MT, Fowler VJ, Hahn CM, Blanz P, Gupta R, Nealson KH, Fox GE (1984). "The phylogeny of purple bacteria: the alpha subdivision". Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 5: 315–326. PMID 11541974.
[edit] Scientific books
- Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn TG (2004). "Taxonomic Outline of the Prokaryotes". Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, release 5.0 (2nd ed.). New York: Springer Verlag. doi:10.1007/bergeysoutline200310.
[edit] Scientific databases
- PubMed references for Rhodobacterales
- PubMed Central references for Rhodobacterales
- Google Scholar references for Rhodobacterales
[edit] External links
- NCBI taxonomy page for Rhodobacterales
- Search Tree of Life taxonomy pages for Rhodobacterales
- Search Species2000 page for Rhodobacterales
- MicrobeWiki page for Rhodobacterales
- LSPN page for Rhodobacterales
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