Rhodobacteraceae

Rhodobacteraceae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Proteobacteria
Class:	Alphaproteobacteria
Order:	Rhodobacterales
Family:	Rhodobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006
Genera
Ahrensia Albidovulum Albirhodobacter[1] Agaricicola Albimonas Amaricoccus Antarctobacter Catellibacterium Citreicella Dinoroseobacter Haematobacter Jannaschia Ketogulonicigenium Leisingera Loktanella Maribius Marinosulfonomonas Marinovum Maritimibacter Methylarcula Nereida Oceanibulbus Oceanicola Octadecabacter Palleronia Pannonibacter Paracoccus Phaeobacter Pseudorhodobacter Pseudovibrio Rhodobaca Rhodobacter Rhodothalassium Rhodovulum Roseibacterium Roseibium Roseicyclus Roseinatronobacter Roseisalinus Roseivivax Roseobacter Roseovarius Rubrimonas Ruegeria Sagittula Salipiger Silicibacter Staleya Stappia Sulfitobacter Tetracoccus Thalassobacter Thalassobius Thioclava Yangia
Synonyms
Rhodobacter group Roseobacter group alpha-3 proteobacteria

The Rhodobacteraceae are a family of proteobacteria, given their own order within the alpha subgroup. Like all proteobacteria, they are gram-negative. It contains chemoorganotrophs and photoheterotrophs bacteria. Many occur in aquatic habitats.

In taxonomy, the Rhodobacteraceae are a family of the Rhodobacterales.^[2]

See also

• Biohydrogen
• Rhodobacter sphaeroides

References

1. Nupur; Vaidya, Bhumika; Tanuku, Naga Radha Srinivas; Pinnaka, Anil Kumar. "Albirhodobacter marinus gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Rhodobacteraceae isolated from sea shore water of Visakhapatnam, India". Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 103 (2): 347–355. doi:10.1007/s10482-012-9814-z.
2. See the NCBI webpage on Rhodobacteraceae. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.

Further reading

Scientific books

• Garrity GM, Holt JG (2001). "Taxonomic Outline of the Archaea and Bacteria". In DR Boone and RW Castenholz, eds. Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Volume 1: The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria (2nd ed.). New York: Springer Verlag. pp. 155–166. ISBN 978-0-387-98771-2.

Scientific databases

• PubMed references for Rhodobacteraceae
• PubMed Central references for Rhodobacteraceae
• Google Scholar references for Rhodobacteraceae

External links

• NCBI taxonomy page for Rhodobacteraceae
• Search Tree of Life taxonomy pages for Rhodobacteraceae
• Search Species2000 page for Rhodobacteraceae
• MicrobeWiki page for Rhodobacteraceae
• LSPN page for Rhodobacteraceae