Albibacter methylovorans is a methylotrophic, aerobic and facultatively autotrophic bacteria from the genus Microvirga which has been isolated from dichloromethane contaminated ground water in Switzerland.[1][3][4][5]
| Albibacter methylovorans | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Alphaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Hyphomicrobiales |
| Family: | Methylocystaceae |
| Genus: | Albibacter |
| Species: | A. methylovorans
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| Binomial name | |
| Albibacter methylovorans Doronina et al. 2001[1]
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| Type strain | |
| DM10, DSM 13819, DSM 22840, VKM B-2236[2] | |
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Etymology
editNew Latin noun methylum (from French méthyle, back-formation from French méthylène, coined from Greek noun methu, wine and Greek noun hulē, wood), the methyl group; New Latin pref. methylo-, pertaining to the methyl radical; Latin participle adjective vorans, devouring, eating; New Latin participle adjective methylovorans, digesting methyl groups.)[5]
References
edit- ^ a b LPSN lpsn.dsmz.de
- ^ Straininfo of Albibacter methylovorans
- ^ a b UniProt
- ^ Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen [1]
- ^ a b Doronina, NV; Trotsenko, YA; Tourova, TP; Kuznetsov, BB; Leisinger, T (May 2001). "Albibacter methylovorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel aerobic, facultatively autotrophic and methylotrophic bacterium that utilizes dichloromethane". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 51 (Pt 3): 1051–8. doi:10.1099/00207713-51-3-1051. PMID 11411673.
Further reading
edit- Brenner, Don J; Krieg, Noel R; Staley, James T, eds. (2005). Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology (2nd ed.). New York: Springer. ISBN 0-387-29298-5.
- Maheshwari, Dinesh K, ed. (2011). Bacteria in agrobiology plant growth responses. New York: Springer. ISBN 978-3-642-20332-9.
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