Biology:Rhodococcus phenolicus

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Short description: Species of bacterium


Rhodococcus phenolicus
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Actinobacteria
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R. phenolicus
Binomial name
Rhodococcus phenolicus
Rehfuss and Urban, 2006[1]

Rhodococcus phenolicus is a bacterium species in the genus Rhodococcus. Phenolicus comes from New Latin noun phenol -olis, phenol; Latin masculine gender suff. -icus, suffix used in adjectives with the sense of belonging to; New Latin masculine gender adjective phenolicus, belonging to phenol. This species is able to degrade phenol as sole carbon source.

References

  1. Rehfuss, M.; Urban, J. (2005). "Rhodococcus phenolicus sp. nov., a novel bioprocessor isolated actinomycete with the ability to degrade chlorobenzene, dichlorobenzene and phenol as sole carbon sources". Systematic and Applied Microbiology 28 (8): 695–701. doi:10.1016/j.syapm.2005.05.011. PMID 16261859. 

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