Talk:Gammaproteobacteria

Hi all! We are a group of 5 univerisity students from the Federico II University in Naples. We are working on our course assignement and we would like to add more content about the characteristics, morphologies, metabolisms, and ecology about the Gammaproteobacteria. Battloglio (talk) 18:23, 15 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome! I'm glad to hear it. I'll add this page to my watchlist so if you have any questions feel free to post here (or if they're more general questions, my talk page or WP:TEAHOUSE). I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia and decide to stick around! We certainly need more eyes/hands on the microbiology articles. Ajpolino (talk) 20:10, 15 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Assignement completed!

We have finished our univerisity assignement and we hope that the improvement on this page could be useful for the Wikipedia community. It has been a pleasure to work on it and be part of this big team. Battloglio (talk) 19:06, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Edited cladogram---am I correct??

I just made a significant change to the cladogram, and I hope someone with enough knowledge will check that what I've presented is correct. I added the label for Gammaproteobacteria. Before that, the branch was without a label. I did that because I believed it was confusing before that, to someone who didn't know. I had thought at first that EITHER it was erroneously presenting information for Betaproteobacteria, OR someone had mislabeled Gamma as Beta. I had to go to the article on Proteobacteria to figure out that what this cladogram meant to do was to present the taxa constituting the Gammas as being alongside the Betas within the Proteos as a whole. (I hope that's clear.) Uporządnicki (talk) 15:12, 11 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Well I'm no bacterial taxonomy expert, but I think it's correct with your label. I think you're right that someone was just trying to show that the beta branch is alongside the gammas. Ajpolino (talk) 20:09, 11 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Etymology given cannot be correct

User:Battloglio I cannot get to the source cited--it is not universally accessible--but it seems clear that the etymology given here for the name Gammaproteobacteria cannot possibly be correct; I suspect a misreading of that source (and other things--some right here in Wikipedia--also back me up):

It says Gamma is a Greek letter meaning changeable, but I suspect it's a Greek letter, and nothing more.
It says the Greek word proteakos means "little stick." But even right afterwards, it says it comes from the Greek sea god Proteus, who could change his shape.
It says the Greek word Bakterion means bacterium, but that seems unlikely unless the ancient Greeks knew about bacteria. And right here in Wikipedia, the article on Bacteria says it comes from a Greek word for little stick.

I believe that the word Proteobacteria means "changeable little stick," and the Gamma is just one of the sequence--there are also Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilon- Proteobacteria. But without finding actual sources, I'm not confident to rewrite this. Uporządnicki (talk) 14:31, 21 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]