Haloquadra

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Haloquadra
Scientific classification
Domain: Archaea
Phylum: Euryarchaeota
Class: Halobacteria
Order: Halobacteriales
Family: Halobacteriaceae
Genus: Haloquadra
Species
  • H. walsbyi
  • uncultured Haloquadra sp.
Synonyms
  • Haloquadra

In taxonomy, Haloquadra is a genus of the Halobacteriaceae.[1] The first species to be identified in this group, Haloquadra walsbyi , is highly unusual since its cells are flat, rectangular boxes in shape.[2]

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[edit] References

  1. ^ See the NCBI webpage on Haloquadra. Data extracted from the NCBI taxonomy resources. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved on 2007-03-19.
  2. ^ Stoeckenius W (1981). "Walsby's square bacterium: fine structure of an orthogonal procaryote". J. Bacteriol. 148 (1): 352–60. PMID 7287626. 

[edit] Further reading

[edit] Scientific journals

  • Burns DG, Camakaris HM, Janssen PH, Dyall-Smith ML (2004). "Cultivation of Walsby's square haloarchaeon". FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 238: 469–473. PMID 15358434. 
  • Oren A, Ventosa A (2000). "International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Halobacteriaceae. Minutes of the meetings, 16 August 1999, Sydney, Australia". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 50: 1405–1407. PMID 10843089. 

[edit] Scientific books

  • Gibbons, NE (1974). "Family V. Halobacteriaceae fam. nov.", in RE Buchanan and NE Gibbons, eds.: Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 8th ed., Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Co.. 

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