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Roseobacter litoralis

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Species of bacterium

Roseobacter litoralis
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order: Rhodobacterales
Family: Rhodobacteraceae
Genus: Roseobacter
Species: R. litoralis
Binomial name
Roseobacter litoralis
Shiba, 1991

Roseobacter litoralis is a species of aerobic pink-pigmented bacteria. Cells are ovoid or rod-shaped and motile by subpolar flagella. R. litoralis does not reduce nitrate, while R. dentrificans does. R. litoralis can be found in marine seaweed.

References

  1. Shiba, Tsuneo (1991). "Roseobacter litoralis gen. nov., sp. nov., and Roseobacter denitrificans sp. nov., Aerobic Pink-Pigmented Bacteria which Contain Bacteriochlorophyll a". Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 14 (2): 140–145. doi:10.1016/S0723-2020(11)80292-4. ISSN 0723-2020.


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