Thauera
| Thauera | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Pseudomonadati |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Betaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Rhodocyclales |
| Family: | Zoogloeaceae |
| Genus: | Thauera Macy et al. 1993 |
| Type species | |
| Thauera selenatis | |
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Thauera is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria in the family Zoogloeaceae of the order Rhodocyclales of the Betaproteobacteria. The genus is named for the German microbiologist Rudolf Thauer. Most species of this genus are motile by flagella and are mostly rod-shaped.[1] The species occur in wet soil and polluted freshwater.[1]
Species
[edit]The genus includes the following species:
- T. aminoaromatica
- T. aromatica
- T. butanivorans
- T. chlorobenzoica
- T. humireducens
- T. linaloolentis
- T. mechernichensis
- T. phenylacetica
- T. propionica[2]
- T. selenatis
- T. terpenica
References
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Wikispecies has information related to Thauera.
- ^ a b Garrity, George M.; Brenner, Don J.; Krieg, Noel R.; Staley, James T. (eds.) (2005). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Volume Two: The Proteobacteria, Part C: The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria. New York, New York: Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-24145-6.
- ^ Pal, D; Bhardwaj, A; Sudan, SK; Kaur, N; Kumari, M; Bisht, B; Vyas, B; Krishnamurthi, S; Mayilraj, S (January 2018). "Thauera propionica sp. nov., isolated from downstream sediment sample of the river Ganges, Kanpur, India". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 68 (1): 341–346. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.002508. PMID 29185938. S2CID 46820334.