Haloplasma

Haloplasma contractile
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Tenericutes
Class: Mollicutes
Order: Haloplasmatales
Rainey, da Costa, Antunes & Huber, 2008[1][2]
Family: Haloplasmataceae
Rainey, da Costa, Antunes & Huber, 2008[1]
Genus: Haloplasma
Antunes, Rainey, da Costa & Huber, 2008[1]
Species: H. contractile
Binomial name
Haloplasma contractile
Antunes, Rainey, da Costa & Huber, 2008[1]

Haloplasma contractile is a halophilic, cell wall-less bacterium. It is the only known representative of a deep lineage, and is classified in its own family (Haloplasmataceae) and order (Haloplasmatales), in the class Mollicutes.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 André Antunes, Fred A. Rainey, Gerhard Wanner, Marco Taborda, Jürgen Pätzold, M. Fernanda Nobre, Milton S. da Costa & Robert Huber (2008). "A new lineage of halophilic, wall-less, contractile bacteria from a brine-filled deep of the Red Sea". Journal of Bacteriology 190 (10): 3580–3587. doi:10.1128/JB.01860-07. PMC 2394993. PMID 18326567.
  2. J. P. Euzéby. "Order Haloplasmatales". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature.

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