Azoarcus olearius is a species of bacteria. It is a nitrogen-fixing bacteria.[1] Its cells are Gram-negative, motile and rod-shaped, surrounded by a thin capsule. Its type strain is DQS-4T (=BCRC 80407T =KCTC 23918T =LMG 26893T).
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Betaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Rhodocyclales |
| Family: | Rhodocyclaceae |
| Genus: | Azoarcus |
| Species: | A. olearius
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| Binomial name | |
| Azoarcus olearius Chen et al., 2013
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References
edit- ^ Chen MH, Sheu SY, James EK, Young CC, Chen WM (May 2013). "Azoarcus olearius sp. nov., a nitrogen-fixing bacterium isolated from oil-contaminated soil". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 63 (Pt 10): 3755–61. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.050609-0. PMID 23645022. Retrieved 2013-07-30.
Further reading
edit- Hurek T, Reinhold-Hurek B (June 1995). "Identification of grass-associated and toluene-degrading diazotrophs, Azoarcus spp., by analyses of partial 16S ribosomal DNA sequences". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 61 (6): 2257–61. doi:10.1128/AEM.61.6.2257-2261.1995. PMC 167497. PMID 7793946.
- Whitman, William B., et al., eds. Bergey's manual® of systematic bacteriology. Vol. 2. Springer, 2012.
- Falkow, Stanley; Dworkin, Martin (2006). The prokaryotes: a handbook on the biology of bacteria. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 0-387-25495-1.
- Malik, Kauser A.; Ladha, J. K.; Bruijn, F. J. de (1997). Opportunities for biological nitrogen fixation in rice and other non-legumes: papers presented at the second working group meeting of the frontier project on nitrogen fixation in rice held at the National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE), Faisalabad, Pakistan, 13-15 October 1996. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 0-7923-4514-2.
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