Sphingomonas stygia
| Sphingomonas stygia | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Proteobacteria |
| Class: | Alpha Proteobacteria |
| Order: | Sphingomonadales |
| Family: | Sphingomonadaceae |
| Genus: | Sphingomonas |
| Binomial name | |
| Sphingomonas stygia Balkwill et al. 1997 | |
| Synonyms | |
|
Novosphingobium stygium (Takeuchi et al. 2001) | |
Sphingomonas stygia is a species of bacteria. It is an aromatic compound-degrading bacteria, it is gram-negative, non-spore-forming, non-motile and rod-shaped. It is found in deep-terrestrial-subsurface sediments.[1]
References
- ↑ Balkwill, D. L.; Drake, G. R.; Reeves, R. H.; Fredrickson, J. K.; White, D. C.; Ringelberg, D. B.; Chandler, D. P.; Romine, M. F.; Kennedy, D. W.; Spadoni, C. M. (1997). "Taxonomic Study of Aromatic-Degrading Bacteria from Deep-Terrestrial-Subsurface Sediments and Description of Sphingomonas aromaticivorans sp. nov., Sphingomonas subterranea sp. nov., and Sphingomonas stygia sp. nov.". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 47 (1): 191–201. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-1-191. ISSN 0020-7713.
Further reading
- Dworkin, Martin, and Stanley Falkow, eds. The Prokaryotes: Vol. 7: Proteobacteria: Delta and Epsilon Subclasses. Deeply Rooting Bacteria. Vol. 7. Springer, 2006.
- Takeuchi, Mariko, Koei Hamana, and Akira Hiraishi. "Proposal of the genus Sphingomonas sensu stricto and three new genera, Sphingobium, Novosphingobium and Sphingopyxis, on the basis of phylogenetic and chemotaxonomic analyses." International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 51.4 (2001): 1405-1417.
External links
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 3/31/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.