Azoarcus olearius

Azoarcus olearius
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Betaproteobacteria
Order:	Rhodocyclales
Family:	Rhodocyclaceae
Genus:	Azoarcus
Species:	A. olearius
Binomial name
Azoarcus olearius Chen et al., 2013

Azoarcus olearius is a species of bacteria. It is a nitrogen-fixing bacteria. ^[1] Its cells are Gram-negative, motile and rod-shaped, surrounded by a thin capsule. Its type strain is DQS-4T (=BCRC 80407T =KCTC 23918T =LMG 26893T).

References

1. Chen MH, Sheu SY, James EK, Young CC, Chen WM (May 2013). "Azoarcus olearius sp. nov., a nitrogen-fixing bacterium isolated from oil-contaminated soil" . International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology . 63 (Pt 10): 3755–61. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.050609-0. PMID   23645022 . Retrieved 2013-07-30.

Further reading

• Hurek T, Reinhold-Hurek B (June 1995). "Identification of grass-associated and toluene-degrading diazotrophs, Azoarcus spp., by analyses of partial 16S ribosomal DNA sequences". Applied and Environmental Microbiology . 61 (6): 2257–61. doi:10.1128/AEM.61.6.2257-2261.1995. PMC   167497 . PMID   7793946.
• Whitman, William B., et al., eds. Bergey's manual® of systematic bacteriology. Vol. 2. Springer, 2012.
• Falkow, Stanley; Dworkin, Martin (2006). The prokaryotes: a handbook on the biology of bacteria. Berlin: Springer. ISBN   0-387-25495-1.
• Malik, Kauser A.; Ladha, J. K.; Bruijn, F. J. de (1997). Opportunities for biological nitrogen fixation in rice and other non-legumes: papers presented at the second working group meeting of the frontier project on nitrogen fixation in rice held at the National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE), Faisalabad, Pakistan, 13-15 October 1996. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN   0-7923-4514-2.

External links

• LPSN
• Type strain of Azoarcus olearius at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase