Haloplasma
| Haloplasma contractile | |
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| Scientific classification | |
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| Order: | Haloplasmatales |
| Family: | Haloplasmataceae Rainey, da Costa, Antunes & Huber, 2008[1]
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| Genus: | Haloplasma Antunes, Rainey, da Costa & Huber, 2008[1]
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| Species: | H. contractile
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| Binomial name | |
| Haloplasma contractile Antunes, Rainey, da Costa & Huber, 2008[1]
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Haloplasma contractile is a halophilic, cell wall-less bacterium. It is the only known representative of a deep lineage, and is classified in its own family (Haloplasmataceae) and order (Haloplasmatales), in the class Mollicutes.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e André Antunes; Fred A. Rainey; Gerhard Wanner; Marco Taborda; Jürgen Pätzold; M. Fernanda Nobre; Milton S. da Costa; Robert Huber (2008). "A new lineage of halophilic, wall-less, contractile bacteria from a brine-filled deep of the Red Sea". Journal of Bacteriology. 190 (10): 3580–3587. doi:10.1128/JB.01860-07. PMC 2394993. PMID 18326567.
- ^ J. P. Euzéby. "Order Haloplasmatales". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature.
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