Ruegeria
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Proteobacteria |
| Class: | Alphaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Rhodobacterales |
| Family: | Rhodobacteraceae |
| Genus: | Ruegeria |
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R. atlantica R. faecimaris R. marina R. lacuscaerulensis (contested) R. pomeroyi (contested) R. mobilis R. scottomollicae |
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In taxonomy, Ruegeria is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae.[1] This genus was formerly known as the marine Agrobacterium before they were reclassified in 1998. It bears in fact the name of Wolfgang Rüger, a German microbiologist, for his contribution to the taxonomy of marine species of Agrobacterium.[2]
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[edit] Characteristics
The genus is characterised by members who are:[3]
- Gram-negative — like all Proteobacteria
- ovoid to rod-shaped cells 0.6–1.6 × 1.0–4.0 µm
- Motile by polar flagella, or nonmotile
- non-sporeformers
- Aerobic
- Oxidase and catalase positive
- No photosynthetic growth
- Bacteriochlorophyll a is absent — feature absent to Sulfitobacter, Sagittula, Octadecabacter, Ruegeria and Antarctobacter, but present in Roseobacter and to a lesser extent Staleya, Roseivivax and Roseovarius
- Major quinone is ubiquinone 10 — common in most alphaproteobacteria and mitochondria, an organelle descending from the Rickettsiales (alphaproteobacteria)
- The mol% G � C of the DNA is 55–59
- the type species is R. altantica — unrelated to Pseudoalteromonas altantica, a gammaproteobacterium
- member of the family Rhodobacteraceae, which is phenotypically, metabolically, ecologically diverse and defined based on 16S sequences data.
Phylogenetically it is very close to the genus Silicibacter, but the two remain separate species due to phenotypic differences — two species fo which this is problematic are Ruegeria lacuscaerulensis and Ruegeria pomeroyi.[4][5]
Two species that have been removed from the genus are Marinovum algicola (Ruegeria algicola) and Thalassobius gelatinovorus (Ruegeria gelatinovora).[6][and refs therein]
[edit] References
- ^ See the NCBI webpage on Ruegeria. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
- ^ UCHINO (Y.), HIRATA (A.), YOKOTA (A.) and SUGIYAMA (J.): Reclassification of marine Agrobacterium species: proposals of Stappia stellulata gen. nov., comb. nov., Stappia aggregata sp. nov., nom. rev., Ruegeria atlantica gen. nov., comb. nov., Ruegeria gelatinovora comb. nov., Ruegeria algicola comb. nov., and Ahrensia kieliense gen. nov., sp. nov., nom. rev. J. Gen. Appl. Microbiol., 1998, 44, 201-210.
- ^ George M. Garrity, ed. (July 26, 2005) [1984(Williams & Wilkins)] (in English). The Proteobacteria. Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. 2C (2nd ed.). New York: Springer. pp. 1388. ISBN 978-0-387-24145-6. British Library no. GBA561951. http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/book/978-0-387-24145-6.
- ^ YI (H.), LIM (Y.W.) and CHUN (J.): Taxonomic evaluation of the genera Ruegeria and Silicibacter: a proposal to transfer the genus Silicibacter Petursdottir and Kristjansson 1999 to the genus Ruegeria Uchino et al. 1999. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2007, 57, 815-819.
- ^ MURAMATSU (Y.), UCHINO (Y.), KASAI (H.), SUZUKI (K.) and NAKAGAWA (Y.): Ruegeria mobilis sp. nov., a member of the Alphaproteobacteria isolated in Japan and Palau. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2007, 57, 1304-1309
- ^ Ruegeria 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.]
[edit] Further reading
[edit] Scientific journals
- Martens T, Heidorn T, Pukall R, Simon M, Tindall BJ, Brinkhoff T (2006). "Reclassification of Roseobacter gallaeciensis Ruiz-Ponte et al. 1998 as Phaeobacter gallaeciensis gen. nov., comb. nov., description of Phaeobacter inhibens sp. nov., antibiotic-producing members of the Roseobacter clade, reclassification of Ruegeria algicola (Lafay et al. 1995) Uchino et al. 1998 as Marinovum algicola gen. nov., comb. nov., and emended descriptions of the genera Roseobacter, Ruegeria and Leisingera". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 56 (Pt 6): 1293–1304. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.63724-0. PMID 16738106.
- Uchino Y, Hirata A, Yokota A, Sugiyama J (1998). "Reclassification of marine Agrobacterium species: proposals of Stappia stellulata gen. nov., comb. nov., Stappia aggregata sp. nov., nom. rev., Ruegeria atlantica gen. nov., comb. nov., Ruegeria gelatinovora comb. nov., Ruegeria algicola comb. nov., and Ahrensia kieliense gen. nov., sp. nov., nom. rev". J. Gen. Appl. Microbiol. 44 (3): 201–210. PMID 12501429.
[edit] Scientific books
- Garrity GM, Holt JG (2001). "Taxonomic Outline of the Archaea and Bacteria". In DR Boone and RW Castenholz, eds.. Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Volume 1: The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria (2nd ed.). New York: Springer Verlag. pp. 155–166. ISBN 978-0387987712.
[edit] Scientific databases
- PubMed references for Ruegeria
- PubMed Central references for Ruegeria
- Google Scholar references for Ruegeria
[edit] External links
- NCBI taxonomy page for Ruegeria
- Search Tree of Life taxonomy pages for Ruegeria
- Search Species2000 page for Ruegeria
- MicrobeWiki page for Ruegeria
- LSPN page for Ruegeria
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