Bacillus arseniciselenatis

Bacillus arseniciselenatis
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Bacillota
Class: Bacilli
Order: Bacillales
Family: Bacillaceae
Genus: Bacillus
Species:
B. arseniciselenatis
Binomial name
Bacillus arseniciselenatis
Blum et al., 1998

Bacillus arseniciselenatis is a bacterium first isolated from Mono Lake, California. It is notable for respiring oxyanions of selenium and arsenic.[1] It is spore-forming, rod-shaped and alkaliphile, its type strain being E1H. It is a strict anaerobe.

References

  1. ↑ Switzer Blum, Jodi; Burns Bindi, A.; Buzzelli, J.; Stolz, John F.; Oremland, R. S. (1998). "Bacillus arsenicoselenatis , sp. nov., and Bacillus selenitireducens , sp. nov.: two haloalkaliphiles from Mono Lake, California that respire oxyanions of selenium and arsenic". Archives of Microbiology. 171 (1): 19–30. doi:10.1007/s002030050673. ISSN 0302-8933. PMID 9871015. S2CID 38748064.

Further reading

  • Staley, James T., et al. "Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology, vol. 3."Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, MD (1989): 2250–2251.
  • Ljungdahl, Lars G. (2003). Biochemistry and physiology of anaerobic bacteria. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 0-387-95592-5.
  • Berkeley, Roger, et al., eds. Applications and systematics of bacillus and relatives. Wiley. com, 2008.
  • Zavarzina, D.G.; Tourova, T.P.; Kolganova, T.V.; Boulygina, E.S.; Zhiliana, T.N. (December 2009). "Description of Anaerobacillus alkalilacustre gen. nov., sp nov.-Strictly anaerobic diazotrophic bacillus isolated from soda lake and transfer of Bacillus arseniciselenatis, Bacillus macyae, and Bacillus alkalidiazotrophicus to Anaerobacillus as the new combinations A. arseniciselenatis comb. nov., A. macyae comb. nov., and A. alkalidiazotrophicus comb. nov". Microbiology. 78 (6): 723–731. doi:10.1134/S0026261709060095. S2CID 25377503.


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