Biology:Curtobacterium

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Short description: Genus of bacteria

Curtobacterium
Scientific classification e
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Actinomycetota
Class: Actinomycetia
Order: Micrococcales
Family: Microbacteriaceae
Genus: Curtobacterium
Yamada and Komagata 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)[1]
Type species
Curtobacterium citreum
(Komagata and Iizuka 1964) Yamada and Komagata 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)
Species[2]
  • C. albidum (Komagata and Iizuka 1964) Yamada and Komagata 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)
  • C. ammoniigenes Aizawa et al. 2007
  • C. citreum (Komagata and Iizuka 1964) Yamada and Komagata 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)
  • C. flaccumfaciens (Hedges 1922) Collins and Jones 1984
  • C. herbarum Behrendt et al. 2002
  • C. luteum (Komagata and Iizuka 1964) Yamada and Komagata 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)
  • "C. oceanosedimentum (Carty and Litchfield 1978) Kim et al. 2009
  • C. plantarum Dunleavy 1989
  • C. pusillum (Iizuka and Komagata 1965) Yamada and Komagata 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)

Curtobacterium is a genus of bacteria of the order Actinomycetales.[1] They are Gram-positive soil organisms.[3]

An analysis of Curtobacterium sequences from around the globe revealed the genus to be a cosmopolitan terrestrial taxon, with isolates derived primarily from plant and soil habitat.[4]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Taxonomic studies on coryneform bacteria. V. Classification of coryneform bacteria.". Journal of General and Applied Microbiology 18 (6): 417–431. 1972. doi:10.2323/jgam.18.417. 
  2. "Curtobacterium". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/curtobacterium. 
  3. Guido Funke; Max Aravena-Roman; Reinhard Frodl (22 November 2004). "First Description of Curtobacterium spp. Isolated from Human Clinical Specimens". Journal of Clinical Microbiology 43 (3): 1032–1036. doi:10.1128/JCM.43.3.1032-1036.2005. PMID 15750056. 
  4. Alexander B Chase; Philip Arevalo; Martin F Polz; Renaud Berlemont; Jennifer B H Martiny (November 22, 2016). "Evidence for Ecological Flexibility in the Cosmopolitan Genus Curtobacterium". Frontiers in Microbiology 7 (1874): 1874. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2016.01874. PMID 27920771. 

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