Roseobacter litoralis

Roseobacter litoralis
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
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.[1] 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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