Ammoniphilus

Ammoniphilus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Division: Firmicutes
Class: Bacilli
Order: Bacillales
Family: Paenibacillaceae
Genus: Ammoniphilus
Zaitsev et al. 1998[1]
Type species
Ammoniphilus oxalaticus[1]
Species

A. oxalaticus[1]
A. oxalivorans[1]

Ammoniphilus is a Gram-variable, strictly aerobic, rod-shaped, haloalkalitolerant spore-forming, obligately oxalotrophic and motile bacterial genus from the family of Paenibacillaceae with peritrichous flagella.[2][3][1][4][5] In the cell wall of Ammoniphilus is meso-diaminopimelic acid.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Parte, A.C. "Ammoniphilus". www.bacterio.net.
  2. Zaitsev, G. M.; Tsitko, I. V.; Rainey, F. A.; Trotsenko, Y. A.; Uotila, J. S.; Stackebrandt, E.; Salkinoja-Salonen, M. S. (1 January 1998). "New aerobic ammonium-dependent obligately oxalotrophic bacteria: description of Ammoniphilus oxalaticus gen. nov., sp. nov. and Ammoniphilus oxalivorans gen. nov., sp. nov.". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 48 (1): 151–163. doi:10.1099/00207713-48-1-151. PMID 9542085.
  3. Paul, De Vos (2009). Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology. (2nd ed. ed.). Dordrecht: Springer. ISBN 0-387-68489-1.
  4. "Ammoniphilus". www.uniprot.org.
  5. 1 2 Rainey, Fred A. (1 January 2015). "Ammoniphilus". Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. doi:10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00548.

Further reading

External identifiers for Ammoniphilus
Encyclopedia of Life 97754
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