Biology:Rhodobacterales

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Short description: Order of Alphaproteobacteria

Rhodobacterales
Scientific classification e
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order: Rhodobacterales
Garrity et al. 2006
Families[1]
  • Neomegalonemataceae Hördt et al. 2020
  • Paracoccaceae Liang et al. 2022
  • Roseobacteraceae Liang et al. 2021

Rhodobacterales are an order of the Alphaproteobacteria.[2]

Gene transfer agents are viruslike elements produced by Rhodobacterales which transfer DNA and may be an important factor in their evolution.[3]

Etymology

From Greek rhodon, the rose, and bakterion, a rod. This refers to the colour of aerobic phototrophic cultures of this order of bacteria which can be pink or red due to the production of carotenoids.[4]

References

  1. Page Species: Anaerococcus nagyae on "LPSN - List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature". Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen. https://lpsn.dsmz.de/species/anaerococcus-nagyae. 
  2. See the NCBI webpage on Rhodobacterales. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. http://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/. 
  3. Maxmen, A. (2010). "Virus-like particles speed bacterial evolution". Nature. doi:10.1038/news.2010.507. 
  4. Rhodobacter. In Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria (eds W. B. Whitman, F. Rainey, P. Kämpfer, M. Trujillo, J. Chun, P. DeVos, B. Hedlund and S. Dedysh).. 2015. doi:10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00862. 

Further reading

Scientific journals

Scientific books

  • "Taxonomic Outline of the Prokaryotes". Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, release 5.0 (2nd ed.). New York: Springer Verlag. 2004. doi:10.1007/bergeysoutline200310. 

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