| Ahrensia | |
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| Class: | Alphaproteobacteria |
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| Genus: | Ahrensia Uchino et al. 1999 |
| Species: | A. kielensis |
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| Ahrensia kielensis (ex Ahrens 1968) Uchino et al. 1999 | |
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In taxonomy, Ahrensia is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae.[1] Ahrensia is named after the German microbiologist R. Ahrens. The cells are rod-shaped and motile. They are strictly aerobic.[2]
See also
- List of bacterial genera named after personal names
References
- ^ See the NCBI webpage on Ahrensia. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
- ^ 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.
Further reading
- Uchino Y, Hirata A, Yokota A, Sugiyama J (1998). "Reclassification of marine Agrobacterium species: proposals of Stappia stellulata gen. nov., comb. nov., Stappia aggregata sp. nov., nom. rev., Ruegeria atlantica gen. nov., comb. nov., Ruegeria gelatinovora comb. nov., Ruegeria algicola comb. nov., and Ahrensia kieliense gen. nov., sp. nov., nom. rev". J. Gen. Appl. Microbiol. 44 (3): 201–210. doi:10.2323/jgam.44.201. PMID 12501429.
- Garrity GM, Holt JG (2001). "Taxonomic Outline of the Archaea and Bacteria". In DR Boone, 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.
- PubMed references for Ahrensia
- PubMed Central references for Ahrensia
- Google Scholar references for Ahrensia
External links
- NCBI taxonomy page for Ahrensia
- Search Tree of Life taxonomy pages for Ahrensia
- Search Species2000 page for Ahrensia
- MicrobeWiki page for Ahrensia
- LPSN page for Ahrensia