Halomonas organivorans

Halomonas organivorans
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Gammaproteobacteria
Order:	Oceanospirillales
Family:	Halomonadaceae
Genus:	Halomonas
Species:	H. organivorans
Binomial name
Halomonas organivorans García et al. 2004

Halomonas organivorans is a halophile able to degrade aromatic compounds. It's considered a potentially useful bacteria for decontamination of polluted saline habitats. Its type strain is G-16.1^T (=CECT 5995^T =CCM 7142^T). ^[1]

References

1. Garcia, M. T. (2004). "Halomonas organivorans sp. nov., a moderate halophile able to degrade aromatic compounds". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 54 (5): 1723–1728. doi: 10.1099/ijs.0.63114-0 . ISSN   1466-5026. PMID   15388735.

Further reading

• Oren, Aharon (2002). Halophilic microorganisms and their environments. Kluwer Academic. ISBN   1-4020-0829-5.
• Driessen, Arnold; Moreno, Maria de Lourdes; Sánchez-Porro, Cristina; Piubeli, Francine; Frias, Luciana; García, María Teresa; Mellado, Encarnación (2011). "Cloning, Characterization and Analysis of cat and ben Genes from the Phenol Degrading Halophilic Bacterium Halomonas organivorans". PLOS ONE. 6 (6) e21049. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021049 . ISSN   1932-6203. PMC   3112211 . PMID   21695219.
• Guerrero, Ricardo (2013). "Halophiles and hypersaline environments. Current research and future trends". International Microbiology. 16 (1): 65–66.

External links

• "Halomonas organivorans". The Encyclopedia of Life .
• LPSN
• Type strain of Halomonas organivorans at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase