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Marinococcus

Marinococcus is a Gram-positive, strictly aerobic, chemolithoautotrophic and non-spore-forming genus of bacteria from the family of Bacillaceae.

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Marinococcus
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Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Bacillati
Phylum: Bacillota
Class: Bacilli
Order: Bacillales
Family: Bacillaceae
Genus: Marinococcus
Hao et al. 19851
Type species
Marinococcus halophilus
(Novitsky & Kushner 1976) Hao, Kocur & Komagata 1985
Species

Marinococcus is a Gram-positive, strictly aerobic, chemolithoautotrophic and non-spore-forming genus of bacteria from the family of Bacillaceae.1234

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)1 and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).5

16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024678 120 marker proteins based GTDB 09-RS22091011
Marinococcus

M. halophilus (Novitsky & Kushner 1976) Hao, Kocur & Komagata 1985

M. salis Reddy et al. 2017

M. tarijensis Balderrama-Subieta et al. 2013

M. halotolerans Li et al. 2005

M. luteus Wang et al. 2009

See also

See also

References

References

  1. A.C. Parte; et al. "Marinococcus". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved 2025-02-28.
  2. "Marinococcus". www.uniprot.org.
  3. Parker, Charles Thomas; Taylor, Dorothea; Garrity, George M (2009). Parker, Charles Thomas; Garrity, George M. (eds.). "Nomenclature Abstract for Marinococcus Hao et al. 1985 emend. Wang et al. 2009". The NamesforLife Abstracts. doi:10.1601/nm.5225.
  4. Ventosa, Antonio (2015). "Marinococcus". Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. pp. 1–6. doi:10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00538. ISBN 978-1-118-96060-8.
  5. C.L. Schoch; et al. "Marinococcus". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. Retrieved 2025-02-28.
  6. "The LTP". Retrieved 10 December 2024.
  7. "LTP_all tree in newick format". Retrieved 10 December 2024.
  8. "LTP_10_2024 Release Notes" (PDF). Retrieved 10 December 2024.
  9. "GTDB release 09-RS220". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
  10. "bac120_r220.sp_labels". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
  11. "Taxon History". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
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