Thalassolituus oleivorans

Thalassolituus oleivorans
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Gammaproteobacteria
Order:	Oceanospirillales
Family:	Oceanospirillaceae
Genus:	Thalassolituus
Species:	Thalassolituus oleivorans Yakimov et al. 2004

Thalassolituus oleivorans is a species of bacteria, the type species of its genus. It is an aerobic, heterotrophic, Gram-negative, curved bacteria that metabolises aliphatic hydrocarbons, their oxidized derivatives and acetate, with type strain MIL-1^T (=DSM 14913^T =LMG 21420^T). ^[1]

References

1. Yakimov, M. M. (2004). "Thalassolituus oleivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium that obligately utilizes hydrocarbons". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 54 (1): 141–148. doi: 10.1099/ijs.0.02424-0 . ISSN   1466-5026. PMID   14742471.

Further reading

• Golyshin, P. N.; Werner, J.; Chernikova, T. N.; Tran, H.; Ferrer, M.; Yakimov, M. M.; Teeling, H.; Golyshina, O. V. (2013). "Genome Sequence of Thalassolituus oleivorans MIL-1 (DSM 14913T)". Genome Announcements. 1 (2): e00141-13–e00141-13. doi:10.1128/genomeA.00141-13. ISSN   2169-8287. PMC   3630401 . PMID   23599290.
• Teramoto, M.; Suzuki, M.; Okazaki, F.; Hatmanti, A.; Harayama, S. (2009). "Oceanobacter-related bacteria are important for the degradation of petroleum aliphatic hydrocarbons in the tropical marine environment". Microbiology. 155 (10): 3362–3370. doi: 10.1099/mic.0.030411-0 . ISSN   1350-0872. PMID   19541999.

External links

• LPSN
• ScientificAmerican article
• Type strain of Thalassolituus oleivorans at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase