Rhodobacter
Scientific classification
Domain:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Pseudomonadota
Class:
Alphaproteobacteria
Order:
Rhodobacterales
Family:
Rhodobacteraceae
Genus:
Rhodobacter

Imhoff et al. 1984[1]
Type species
Rhodobacter capsulatus
Species[2]
  • Rhodobacter aestuarii Venkata Ramana et al. 2009
  • Rhodobacter azotoformans Hiraishi et al. 1997
  • Rhodobacter blasticus corrig. (Eckersley and Dow 1981) Kawasaki et al. 1994
  • Rhodobacter capsulatus (Molisch 1907) Imhoff et al. 1984
  • Rhodobacter johrii Girija et al. 2010
  • Rhodobacter maris Venkata Ramana et al. 2008
  • Rhodobacter megalophilus Arunasri et al. 2008
  • Rhodobacter ovatus Srinivas et al. 2008
  • Rhodobacter sphaeroides (van Niel 1944) Imhoff et al. 1984
  • Rhodobacter veldkampii Hansen and Imhoff 1985
  • Rhodobacter vinaykumarii Srinivas et al. 2007
  • Rhodobacter viridis Shalem Raj et al. 2013
Synonyms[2]
  • Bieblia Hördt et al. 2020
  • Fuscovulum Suresh et al. 2020
  • Phaeovulum Suresh et al. 2020

In taxonomy, Rhodobacter is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae.[3] The most famous species of Rhodobacter are Rhodobacter sphaeroides and Rhodobacter capsulatus, which are used as model organisms to study bacterial photosynthesis.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ Imhoff JF, Truper HG, Pfennig N (1984). "Rearrangement of the species and genera of the phototrophic purple nonsulfur bacteria". Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 34 (3): 340–343. doi:10.1099/00207713-34-3-340.
  2. ^ a b List of Prokaryotic Names with Standing in Nomenclature—Rhodobacter
  3. ^ Garrity GM, Holt JG (2001). "Taxonomic Outline of the Archaea and Bacteria". In Boone DR, Castenholz RW (eds.). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Volume 1: The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria (2nd ed.). New York: Springer Verlag. pp. 155–166. ISBN 978-0-387-98771-2.


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