Alcaligenaceae

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Alcaligenaceae
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Bordetella bronchiseptica
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Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Betaproteobacteria
Order: Burkholderiales
Family: Alcaligenaceae
De Ley et al., 1986 [1]
Genera [2] [3]

The Alcaligenaceae are a family of bacteria, included in the order Burkholderiales. Members are found in water, soil, humans, and other animals. [4] Some species, like Bordetella , are pathogenic for humans and for some other animals. [4]

References

  1. De Ley, Jozef; Segers, P.; Kersters, K.; Mannheim, W.; Lievens, A. (1986). "Intra- and Intergeneric Similarities of the Bordetella Ribosomal Ribonucleic Acid Cistrons: Proposal for a New Family, Alcaligenaceae". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 36 (3): 405–414. doi: 10.1099/00207713-36-3-405 .
  2. "Alcaligenaceae". NCBI taxonomy. Bethesda, MD: National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  3. "Taxonomy - Alcaligenaceae". UniProt. UniProt Consortium. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  4. 1 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: Springer. pp. 354–361. ISBN   978-0-387-24145-6.