Acidocella

Acidocella
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: "Proteobacteria"
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order: Rhodospirillales
Family: Acetobacteraceae
Genus: Acidocella
Type species
A. facilis

Acidocella is a genus in the phylum Proteobacteria (Bacteria).[1] Its members are acidophilic.

Etymology

The name Acidocella derives from New Latin acidum (from Latin acidus, sour), an acid; Latin cella, a store-room, a chamber and, in biology, a cell; giving Acidocella, an acid (-requiring) cell.[2]

Species

The genus contains:[2]

See also

References

  1. Classification of Genera AC entry in LPSN [Euzéby, J.P. (1997). "List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet". Int J Syst Bacteriol 47 (2): 590–2. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-2-590. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 9103655.]
  2. 2.0 2.1 Acidocella entry in LPSN [Euzéby, J.P. (1997). "List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet". Int J Syst Bacteriol 47 (2): 590–2. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-2-590. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 9103655.]
  3. Kimoto, K. I.; Aizawa, T.; Urai, M.; Bao Ve, N.; Suzuki, K. I.; Nakajima, M.; Sunairi, M. (2009). "Acidocella aluminiidurans sp. Nov., an aluminium-tolerant bacterium isolated from Panicum repens grown in a highly acidic swamp in actual acid sulfate soil area of Vietnam". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 60 (4): 764–768. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.011569-0.
  4. 4.0 4.1 http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/reprint/46/1/362