Halorubrum

Halorubrum
Scientific classification
Domain: Archaea
Kingdom: Euryarchaeota
Phylum: Euryarchaeota
Class: Halobacteria
Order: Halobacteriales
Family: Halobacteriaceae
Genus: Halorubrum
Binomial name
Halorubrum
McGenity and Grant 1996
Species
  • H. aidingense
  • H. alkaliphilum
  • H. arcis
  • H. californiensis
  • H. coriense
  • H. distributum
  • H. ejinorense
  • H. ezzemoulense
  • H. kocurii
  • H. lacusprofundi
  • H. lipolyticum
  • H. litoreum
  • H. luteum
  • H. orientalis
  • H. saccharovorum
  • H. salsolis
  • H. sodomense
  • H. tebenquichense
  • H. terrestre
  • H. tibetense
  • H. trapanicum
  • H. vacuolatum
  • H. xinjiangense
Synonyms
  • Halorubrobacterium
  • Halorubrobacterium Kamekura and Dyall-Smith 1996

Genetic exchange

A population of the haloarchaea Halorubrum in its natural high salt concentration environment exchanged genetic information frequently by recombination.[1] This population exhibited a degree of linkage equilibrium approaching that of a sexual population.

Taxonomy

In taxonomy, Halorubrum is a genus of the Halobacteriaceae.[2]

References

  1. Papke RT, Koenig JE, Rodríguez-Valera F, Doolittle WF (December 2004). "Frequent recombination in a saltern population of Halorubrum". Science 306 (5703): 1928–9. doi:10.1126/science.1103289. PMID 15591201.
  2. See the NCBI webpage on Halorubrum. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.

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