Alteromonadales

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Alteromonadales
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria Phylum: Proteobacteria Class: Gamma Proteobacteria Order: Alteromonadales
Families
Alteromonadaceae Pseudoalteromonadaceae Colwelliaceae Shewanellaceae Moritellaceae Ferrimonadaceae Idiomarinaceae Psychromonadaceae

The Alteromonadales are an order of Proteobacteria. Although they have been treated as a single family, the Alteromonadaceae, they were divided into eight by Ivanova et al. in 2004.

[edit] References

• Elena P. Ivanova, Sebastien Flavier, and Richard Christen. (2004). Phylogenetic relationships among marine Alteromonas-like proteobacteria: emended description of the family Alteromonadaceae and proposal of Pseudoalteromonadaceae fam. nov., Colwelliaceae fam. nov., Shewanellaceae fam. nov., Moritellaceae fam. nov., Ferrimonadaceae fam. nov., Idiomarinaceae fam. nov. and Psychromonadaceae fam. nov. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 54: 1773-1788.