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Ancylobacter

Ancylobacter is a genus of aerobic bacteria in the family Xanthobacteraceae.

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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order: Hyphomicrobiales
Family: Xanthobacteraceae
Genus: Ancylobacter
Raj 19831
Type species
Ancylobacter aquaticus1
Species1
Synonyms23
  • Renobacter Nikitin 1971
  • Microcyclus Ørskov 1928 (Approved Lists 1980)

Ancylobacter is a genus of aerobic bacteria in the family Xanthobacteraceae.1245

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN).1 The phylogeny is based on whole-genome analysis.6

References

References

  1. LPSN lpsn.dsmz.de
  2. UniProt
  3. Stacey, Gary; Burris, Robert H.; Evans, Harold J., eds. (1992). Biological nitrogen fixation. New York: Chapman & Hall. ISBN 0-412-02421-7.
  4. Don J. Brenner; Noel R. Krieg; James T. Staley, eds. (2005). Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology (2nd ed.). New York: Springer. ISBN 0-387-29298-5.
  5. Emanuel Goldman; Lorrence H. Green, eds. (2009). Practical handbook of microbiology (2nd ed.). Boca Raton: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-0933-0.
  6. Hördt A, García López M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow A, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Göker M (2020). "Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria". Front. Microbiol. 11: 468. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2020.00468. PMC 7179689. PMID 32373076.
Further reading

Further reading

  • Janssen, Martin H. Agteren, Sytze Keuning, Dick B. (1998). Handbook on Biodegradation and Biological Treatment of Hazardous Organic Compounds. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. ISBN 94-015-9062-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)