Azoarcus
| Azoarcus | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Proteobacteria |
| Class: | Betaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Rhodocyclales |
| Family: | Rhodocyclaceae |
| Genus: | Azoarcus Reinhold-Hurek et al. 1993 |
| Species: | Azoarcus anaerobius Azoarcus buckelii Azoarcus communis Azoarcus evansii Azoarcus indigens Azoarcus olearius Azoarcus toluclasticus Azoarcus tolulyticus Azoarcus toluvorans |
| Type species | |
| Azoarcus indigens | |
Azoarcus is a genus of nitrogen-fixating bacteria.[1] Species in this genus are usually found in contaminated water, as they are involved in the degradation of some contaminants, commonly habitating in soil.
References
- ↑ REINHOLD-HUREK (B.), HUREK (T.), GILLIS (M.), HOSTE (B.), VANCANNEYT (M.), KERSTERS (K.), and DE LEY (J.): Azoarcus gen. nov., nitrogen-fixing proteobacteria associated with roots of kallar grass (Leptochloa fusca (L.) Kunth), and description of two species,Azoarcus indigens sp. nov. and Azoarcus communis sp. nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1993, 43, 574-584.
Further reading
- Hurek T, Reinhold-Hurek B (June 1995). "Identification of grass-associated and toluene-degrading diazotrophs, Azoarcus spp., by analyses of partial 16S ribosomal DNA sequences". Applied and Environmental Microbiology 61 (6): 2257–61. PMC 167497. PMID 7793946. Retrieved 2013-07-30.
- Whitman, William B., et al., eds. Bergey’s manual® of systematic bacteriology. Vol. 2. Springer, 2012.
- Falkow, Stanley; Dworkin, Martin (2006). The prokaryotes: a handbook on the biology of bacteria. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 0-387-25495-1.
- Malik, Kauser A.; Ladha, J. K.; Bruijn, F. J. de (1997). Opportunities for biological nitrogen fixation in rice and other non-legumes: papers presented at the second working group meeting of the frontier project on nitrogen fixation in rice held at the National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE), Faisalabad, Pakistan, 13-15 October 1996. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 0-7923-4514-2.
External links
- LPSN
- Azoarcus at the Encyclopedia of Life