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Leucobacter

Leucobacter is a bacterial genus from the family Microbacteriaceae.

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Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Bacillati
Phylum: Actinomycetota
Class: Actinomycetes
Order: Micrococcales
Family: Microbacteriaceae
Genus: Leucobacter
Takeuchi et al. 19961
Type species
Leucobacter komagatae
Takeuchi et al. 1996
Species

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Leucobacter is a bacterial genus from the family Microbacteriaceae.12

Species

Leucobacter comprises the following species:3

  • L. aerolatus Martin et al. 2010
  • L. albus Lin et al. 2004
  • L. alluvii Morais et al. 2006
  • L. aridicollis Morais et al. 2005
  • L. celer Shin et al. 2011
  • L. chironomi Halpern et al. 2009
  • L. chromiireducens Morais et al. 2005
  • L. chromiiresistens Sturm et al. 2011
  • L. chromiisoli Xu et al. 2021
  • L. coleopterorum Hyun et al. 2022
  • L. corticis Li et al. 2017
  • L. denitrificans Weon et al. 2012
  • "L. epilobiisoli" Hou et al. 2018
  • L. exalbidus Ue 2011
  • L. holotrichiae Zhu et al. 2016
  • "L. humi" Her and Lee 2015
  • L. iarius Somvanshi et al. 2007
  • L. insecticola Hyun et al. 2022
  • L. japonicus (Clark and Hodgkin 2015) Nouioui et al. 2018
  • L. komagatae Takeuchi et al. 1996
  • "L. kyeonggiensis" Kim and Lee 2011
  • L. luti Morais et al. 2006
  • "L. margaritiformis" Lee and Lee 2012
  • "L. massiliensis" Leangapichart et al. 2018
  • L. muris Benga et al. 2019
  • L. musarum Clark and Hodgkin 2015
  • L. populi Fang et al. 2016
  • L. ruminantium Chun et al. 2017
  • L. salsicius Yun et al. 2011
  • L. soli Kämpfer et al. 2021
  • "Ca. L. sulfonamidivorax" corrig. Reis et al. 2019
  • L. tardus Behrendt et al. 2008
  • L. triazinivorans Sun et al. 2018
  • "L. tropicalis" Liu et al. 1999
  • L. viscericola Hyun et al. 2022
  • L. weissii Schumann and Pukall 2017
  • L. zeae Lai et al. 2015
References

References

  1. Takeuchi M, Weiss N, Schumann P, Yokota A. (1996). "Leucobacter komagatae gen. nov., sp. nov., a new aerobic gram-positive, nonsporulating rod with 2,4-diaminobutyric acid in the cell wall". Int J Syst Bacteriol. 46 (4): 967–971. doi:10.1099/00207713-46-4-967. PMID 8863425.
  2. ed.-in-chief, George M. Garrity (2012). Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology (2nd ed.). New York: Springer Science + Business Media. ISBN 978-0-387-68233-4. {{cite book}}: |last1= has generic name (help)
  3. Euzéby JP, Parte AC. "Leucobacter". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved June 9, 2022.
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