Aquipluma

Aquipluma is a facultatively anaerobic genus of bacteria from the family of Prolixibacteraceae with one known species (Aquipluma nitroreducens).[1][2] Aquipluma nitroreducens has the ability to reduce nitrate.[2]

Aquipluma
Scientific classification
Domain:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Bacteroidota
Class:
Bacteroidia
Order:
Bacteroidales
Family:
Prolixibacteraceae
Genus:
Aquipluma

Watanabe et al. 2020[1]
Species

A. nitroreducens[1]

References
  1. "Genus: Aquipluma". LPSN.DSMZ.de.
  2. Watanabe, Miho; Kojima, Hisaya; Fukui, Manabu (2020). "Aquipluma nitroreducens gen. nov. sp. nov., a novel facultatively anaerobic bacterium isolated from a freshwater lake". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 70 (12): 6408–6413. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.004551. PMID 33156751.


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