Xanthobacter

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Xanthobacter
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Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order: Hyphomicrobiales
Family: Xanthobacteraceae
Genus: Xanthobacter
Wiegel et al. 1978 [1]
Type species
Xanthobacter autotrophicus
Species [1]

Xanthobacter is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria from the family Xanthobacteraceae. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). [1] The phylogeny is based on whole-genome analysis. [5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 LPSN lpsn.dsmz.de
  2. UniProt
  3. Garrity, George M., ed. (2005). Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology (2nd ed.). New York: Springer. ISBN   0-387-24145-0.
  4. Falkow, Stanley, ed. (2006). Proteobacteria: Alpha and Beta subclasses (3rd ed.). New York: Springer. ISBN   0-387-25495-1.
  5. Hördt A, García López M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold L, Tindall BJ, Gronow A, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Göker M (2020). "Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria". Front. Microbiol. 11: 468. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.00468 . PMC   7179689 . PMID   32373076.