Ahrensia

Ahrensia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Alphaproteobacteria
Order:	Hyphomicrobiales
Family:	Ahrensiaceae
Genus:	Ahrensia Uchino et al. 1999
Species:	A. kielensis
Binomial name
Ahrensia kielensis (ex Ahrens 1968) Uchino et al. 1999
Synonyms
"Agrobacterium kieliense" Ahrens 1968 Ahrensia kielienseUchino et al. 1999

Ahrensia is a genus of bacteria in the order Hyphomicrobiales. ^[1] Ahrensia is named after the German microbiologist R. Ahrens. The cells are rod-shaped and motile. They are strictly aerobic. ^[2]

See also

• List of bacterial genera named after personal names

References

1. See the NCBI webpage on Ahrensia. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information . Retrieved 2007-03-19.
2. Garrity, George M.; Brenner, Don J.; Krieg, Noel R.; Staley, James T. (eds.) (2005). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Volume Two: The Proteobacteria, Part C: The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria. New York, New York: Springer. ISBN   978-0-387-24145-6.

Further reading

• Uchino Y, Hirata A, Yokota A, Sugiyama J (1998). "Reclassification of marine Agrobacterium species: proposals of Stappia stellulata gen. nov., comb. nov., Stappia aggregata sp. nov., nom. rev., Ruegeria atlantica gen. nov., comb. nov., Ruegeria gelatinovora comb. nov., Ruegeria algicola comb. nov., and Ahrensia kieliense gen. nov., sp. nov., nom. rev". J. Gen. Appl. Microbiol. 44 (3): 201–210. doi: 10.2323/jgam.44.201 . PMID   12501429.