Rhodobacter

In taxonomy, Rhodobacter is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae.[3] The most famous species of Rhodobacter are Rhodobacter sphaeroides and Rhodobacter capsulatus, which are used as model organisms to study bacterial photosynthesis.

Rhodobacter
Scientific classification
Domain:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Proteobacteria
Class:
Alphaproteobacteria
Order:
Rhodobacterales
Family:
Rhodobacteraceae
Genus:
Rhodobacter

Imhoff et al. 1984[1]
Type species
Rhodobacter capsulatus
Species[2]
  • Rhodobacter aestuarii Venkata Ramana et al. 2009
  • Rhodobacter azotoformans Hiraishi et al. 1997
  • Rhodobacter blasticus corrig. (Eckersley and Dow 1981) Kawasaki et al. 1994
  • Rhodobacter capsulatus (Molisch 1907) Imhoff et al. 1984
  • Rhodobacter johrii Girija et al. 2010
  • Rhodobacter maris Venkata Ramana et al. 2008
  • Rhodobacter megalophilus Arunasri et al. 2008
  • Rhodobacter ovatus Srinivas et al. 2008
  • Rhodobacter sphaeroides (van Niel 1944) Imhoff et al. 1984
  • Rhodobacter veldkampii Hansen and Imhoff 1985
  • Rhodobacter vinaykumarii Srinivas et al. 2007
  • Rhodobacter viridis Shalem Raj et al. 2013

References
  1. Imhoff JF, Truper HG, Pfennig N (1984). "Rearrangement of the species and genera of the phototrophic purple nonsulfur bacteria". Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 34 (3): 340–343. doi:10.1099/00207713-34-3-340.
  2. List of Prokaryotic Names with Standing in Nomenclature—Rhodobacter
  3. Garrity GM, Holt JG (2001). "Taxonomic Outline of the Archaea and Bacteria". In Boone DR, Castenholz RW (eds.). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Volume 1: The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria (2nd ed.). New York: Springer Verlag. pp. 155–166. ISBN 978-0-387-98771-2.


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