Roseivivax halodurans

Roseivivax halodurans is a species of bacteria, the type species of its genus. It is aerobic and bacteriochlorophyll-containing, first isolated from the charophytes on the stromatolites of a saline lake located on the west coast of Australia. It is chemoheterotrophic, Gram-negative, motile, rod-shaped and with subpolar flagella. Its type strain is OCh 239T (= JCM 10272T).[1]

Roseivivax halodurans
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R. halodurans
Binomial name
Roseivivax halodurans
Suzuki et al. 1999

References

  1. Suzuki, T.; Muroga, Y.; Takahama, M.; Nishimura, Y. (1999). "Roseivivax halodurans gen. nov., sp. nov. and Roseivivax halotolerans sp. nov., aerobic bacteriochlorophyll-containing bacteria isolated from a saline lake". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 49 (2): 629–634. doi:10.1099/00207713-49-2-629. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 10319485.

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