Azoarcus communis
| Azoarcus communis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Betaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Rhodocyclales |
| Family: | Rhodocyclaceae |
| Genus: | Azoarcus |
| Species: | A. communis
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| Binomial name | |
| Azoarcus communis Reinhold-Hurek et al., 1993
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Azoarcus communis is a species of bacteria. It is a nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Its cells are yellow-pigmented, straight to curved, gram-negative rods. Its type strain is LMG 5514.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Reinhold-Hurek, B.; Hurek, T.; Gillis, M.; Hoste, B.; Vancanneyt, M.; Kersters, K.; De Ley, J. (1993). "Azoarcus gen. nov., Nitrogen-Fixing Proteobacteria Associated with Roots of Kallar Grass (Leptochloa fusca (L.) Kunth), and Description of Two Species, Azoarcus indigens sp. nov. and Azoarcus communis sp. nov". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 43 (3): 574–584. doi:10.1099/00207713-43-3-574. ISSN 0020-7713.
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. Bibcode:1995ApEnM..61.2257H. 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.
External links
[edit]- "Azoarcus communis". The Encyclopedia of Life.
- LPSN
- Type strain of Azoarcus communis at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
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