The Beijerinckiaceae are a family of Hyphomicrobiales named after the Dutch microbiologist Martinus Willem Beijerinck. Beijerinckia is a genus of free-living aerobic nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Acidotolerant Beijerinckiaceae has been shown to be the main bacterial methanol sink in a deciduous forest soil and highlights their importance for the conversion of methanol in forest soils.[3]

Beijerinckiaceae
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Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order: Hyphomicrobiales
Family: Beijerinckiaceae
Garrity et al. 2006
Genera[1][2]

Together with Methylocystaceae they are alphaproteobacterial methanotrophs.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Euzéby JP, Parte AC. "Beijerinckiaceae". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved May 16, 2021.
  2. ^ "Beijerinckiaceae". www.uniprot.org.
  3. ^ Morawe M, Hoeke H, Wissenbach DK, Lentendu G, Wubet T, Kröber E, Kolb S (2017-07-24). "Acidotolerant Bacteria and Fungi as a Sink of Methanol-Derived Carbon in a Deciduous Forest Soil". Frontiers in Microbiology. 8: 1361. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2017.01361. PMC 5523551. PMID 28790984.
  4. ^ Tamas I, Smirnova AV, He Z, Dunfield PF (February 2014). "The (d)evolution of methanotrophy in the Beijerinckiaceae--a comparative genomics analysis". The ISME Journal. 8 (2): 369–82. Bibcode:2014ISMEJ...8..369T. doi:10.1038/ismej.2013.145. PMC 3906808. PMID 23985741.