Chitinivibrio

Chitinivibrio is an extremely haloalkaliphilic genus of bacteria from the family of Chitinivibrionaceae with one known species (Chitinivibrio alkaliphilus).[1][2][3][4] Chitinivibrio alkaliphilus has been isolated from hypersaline lake sediments from Wadi al Natrun in Egypt.[5]

Chitinivibrio
Scientific classification
Domain:
Phylum:
Class:
Chitinivibrionia

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Order:
Chitinivibrionales

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Family:
Chitinivibrionaceae

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Genus:
Chitinivibrio

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Type species
Chitinivibrio alkaliphilus[1]
Species

C. alkaliphilus[1]

References

  1. Parte, A.C. "Chitinivibrio". LPSN.
  2. "Chitinivibrio". Www.uniprot.org.
  3. Parker, Charles Thomas; Garrity, George M (2014). Parker, Charles Thomas; Garrity, George M (eds.). "Nomenclature Abstract for Chitinivibrio". The NamesforLife Abstracts. doi:10.1601/nm.25590.
  4. Sorokin, DY; Gumerov, VM; Rakitin, AL; Beletsky, AV; Damsté, JS; Muyzer, G; Mardanov, AV; Ravin, NV (June 2014). "Genome analysis of Chitinivibrio alkaliphilus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel extremely haloalkaliphilic anaerobic chitinolytic bacterium from the candidate phylum Termite Group 3". Environmental Microbiology. 16 (6): 1549–65. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.12284. PMID 24112708.
  5. "Details: DSM-26620". Www.dsmz.de.
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