Thiohalobacteraceae fam. nov.

Title

Thiohalobacteraceae fam. nov.

 Author

Sorokin, Dimitry Y. (TU Delft BT/Environmental Biotechnology; Russian Academy of Sciences) ORCID 0000-0001-9900-4412
Merkel, Alexander Y. (Russian Academy of Sciences)

Contributor

Whitman, William (editor)

Date

2023

 Abstract

Thi.o.ha.lo.bac.ter.a.ce’ae N.L. masc. n. Thiohalobacter, the type genus of the family, -aceae ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Thiohalobacteraceae the
Thiohalobacter family. The family Thiohalobacteraceae consists of aerobic, chemolithoautotrophic, sulfur-oxidizing bacteria from hypersaline salt lakes. They are moderately halophilic aerobic, bacteria utilizing reduced sulfur compounds as the energy source and assimilating CO2 via the Calvin–Benson–Bassham cycle. The family is a member of the order Thiohalobacterales within the Gammaproteobacteria and consists of a single genus Thiohalobacter. The family-level status was established by phylogenomic analysis based on the Genome Taxonomy DataBase classification. DNA G + C content (%): 64.2 (genome sequence). Type genus: Thiohalobacter Sorokin et al. 2010VP.

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 DOI

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.fbm00394

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John Wiley & Sons

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Campus only

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9781118960608

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Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria

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book chapter

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© 2023 Dimitry Y. Sorokin, Alexander Y. Merkel
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