Albibacter methylovorans

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Albibacter methylovorans
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Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order: Hyphomicrobiales
Family: Methylocystaceae
Genus: Albibacter
Species:
A. methylovorans
Binomial name
Albibacter methylovorans
Doronina et al. 2001 [1]
Type strain
DM10, DSM 13819, DSM 22840, VKM B-2236 [2]
Synonyms [3]
  • Albobacter methylovorans

Albibacter methylovorans is a methylotrophic, aerobic and facultatively autotrophic bacteria from the genus Microvirga which has been isolated from dichloromethane contaminated ground water in Switzerland. [1] [3] [4] [5]

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Etymology

New Latin noun methylum (from French méthyle, back-formation from French méthylène, coined from Greek noun methu, wine and Greek noun hulē, wood), the methyl group; New Latin pref. methylo-, pertaining to the methyl radical; Latin participle adjective vorans, devouring, eating; New Latin participle adjective methylovorans, digesting methyl groups.) [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 LPSN lpsn.dsmz.de
  2. Straininfo of Albibacter methylovorans
  3. 1 2 UniProt
  4. Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen
  5. 1 2 Doronina, NV; Trotsenko, YA; Tourova, TP; Kuznetsov, BB; Leisinger, T (May 2001). "Albibacter methylovorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel aerobic, facultatively autotrophic and methylotrophic bacterium that utilizes dichloromethane". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 51 (Pt 3): 1051–8. doi: 10.1099/00207713-51-3-1051 . PMID   11411673.

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