Acetobacteraceae

Acetobacteraceae
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	Acetobacter aceti
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Proteobacteria
Class:	Alphaproteobacteria
Order:	Rhodospirillales
Family:	Acetobacteraceae
Genera
	Acetobacter; Acidicaldus; Acidiphilium; Acidisoma; Acidisphaera; Acidocella; Acidomonas; Asaia; Belnapia; Craurococcus; Endobacter; Gluconacetobacter; Gluconobacter; Granulibacter; Komagataeibacter; Kozakia; Muricoccus; Neoasaia; Neokomagataea; Oleomonas; Paracraurococcus; Rhodopila; Rhodovarius; Roseococcus; Roseomonas; Rubritepida; Saccharibacter; Stella (genus); Swaminathania; Tanticharoenia; Teichococcus; Zavarzinia

Acetobacteraceae is a family of gram-negative bacteria. The Type genus is Acetobacter.^[1] Ten genera from Acetobacteraceae make up the acetic acid bacteria.^[2]

History

Acetobacteraceae was proposed as a family for Acetobacter and Gluconobacter based on rRNA and DNA–DNA hybridization comparisons in 1980.^[3]

^ "Family Acetobacteraceae". List of Prokaryotic Names with Standing (LPSN). Retrieved 16 January 2016.
^ Raspor P; Goranovic D (2008). "Biotechnological applications of acetic acid bacteria". Critical Reviews in Biotechnology. 28 (2): 101–124. doi:10.1080/07388550802046749. PMID 18568850.
^ Gillis M; De Ley J (January 1980). "Intra- and Intergenic Similarities of the Ribosomal Ribonucleic Acid Cistrons of Acetobacter and Gluconobacter". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 30: 7–27. doi:10.1099/00207713-30-1-7.