Flavobacterium
| Flavobacterium | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Bacteroidetes |
| Class: | Flavobacteriia |
| Order: | Flavobacteriales |
| Family: | Flavobacteriaceae |
| Genus: | Flavobacterium Bergey, et al. 1923 |
| Species | |
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F. akiainvivens | |
Flavobacterium is a genus of Gram-negative, nonmotile and motile, rod-shaped bacteria that consists of 130 recognized species,[1][2] as well as three newly proposed species (F. gondwanense,[3] F. salegens,[3] and F. scophthalmum[4]). Flavobacteria are found in soil and fresh water in a variety of environments. Several species are known to cause disease in freshwater fish.[5]
Flavobacterium psychrophilum causes the bacterial cold water disease on salmonids and the rainbow trout fry disease on rainbow trout. Flavobacterium columnare causes the cotton-wool disease on freshwater fishes. F. branchiophilum causes the bacterial gill disease on trout.
Nylon-eating bacteria are a strain of Flavobacterium that is capable of digesting certain byproducts of nylon 6 manufacture.
References
- ↑ http://www.bacterio.net/flavobacterium.html
- ↑ Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd ed., vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria) (D.R. Boone and R.W. Castenholz, eds.), Springer-Verlag, New York (2001). pp. 465-466.
- 1 2 Dobson; Colwell, RR; McMeekin, TA; Franzmann, PD; et al. (Jan 1993). "Direct sequencing of the polymerase chain reaction-amplified 16S rRNA gene of Flavobacterium gondwanense sp. nov. and Flavobacterium salegens sp nov., two new species from a hypersaline antarctic lake". Int J Syst Bacteriol. 43 (1): 77–83. PMID 7678983. doi:10.1099/00207713-43-1-77.
- ↑ Mudarris; Austin, B.; Segers, P.; Vancanneyt, M.; Hoste, B.; Bernardet, J. F.; et al. (Jan 1993). "Flavobacterium scophthalmum sp. nov., a pathogen of turbot (Scophthalmus maximus L.)". Int J Syst Bacteriol. 44 (1): 77–83. PMID 8068540. doi:10.1099/00207713-44-3-447.
- ↑ Bernardet; et al. (Jul 1994). "Cutting a Gordian Knot: Emended Classification and Description of the Genus Flavobacterium, Emended Description of the Family Flavobacteriaceae, and Proposal of Flaviobacterium hydatis nom. nov. (Basonym, Cytophaga aquatalis Strohl and Tait 1978)". Int J Syst Bacteriol. 46 (3): 447–53. doi:10.1099/00207713-46-1-128.
