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Oceanospirillum and Related Genera

  • SECTION 3.3 Gamma Subclass
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Introduction

Gram-negative, marine and/or halophilic aerobes and facultative anaerobes belong to several phylogenetic groups. Within the γ-subdivision of the Proteobacteria, a number of well known genera belonging to this group include Alteromonas, Vibrio, Shewanella and Photobacterium. This chapter covers many of the other, lesser known marine genera of the class γ-Proteobacteria, including Alcanivorax, Fundibacter, Hahella, Marinobacter, Marinobacterium, Marinomonas, Marinospirillum, Microbulbifer, Neptunomonas, Oceanobacter, Oceanospirillum and Pseudospirillum, as well as some related organisms that have not been properly classified, such as Pseudomonas halophila and strain 2-40. Historically, many of the species in this group have been classified with Oceanospirillum. Phylogenetic analyses of the 16S rRNA of these taxa suggest that, while these genera are all related, they are also fairly diverse and likely to represent a number of relatively deep phylogenetic groups (Fig. 1)....

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González, J.M., Whitman, W.B. (2006). Oceanospirillum and Related Genera. In: Dworkin, M., Falkow, S., Rosenberg, E., Schleifer, KH., Stackebrandt, E. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30746-X_33

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