REORGANIZATION OF THE GENUS ERYTHROMICROBIUM - DESCRIPTION OF ERYTHROMICROBIUM-SIBIRICUM AS SANDARACINOBACTER-SIBIRICUS GEN. NOV., SP. NOV., AND OF ERYTHROMICROBIUM-URSINCOLA AS ERYTHROMONAS-URSINCOLA GEN. NOV., SP. NOV

Citation
V. Yurkov et al., REORGANIZATION OF THE GENUS ERYTHROMICROBIUM - DESCRIPTION OF ERYTHROMICROBIUM-SIBIRICUM AS SANDARACINOBACTER-SIBIRICUS GEN. NOV., SP. NOV., AND OF ERYTHROMICROBIUM-URSINCOLA AS ERYTHROMONAS-URSINCOLA GEN. NOV., SP. NOV, International journal of systematic bacteriology, 47(4), 1997, pp. 1172-1178
Citations number
42
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology
ISSN journal
00207713
Volume
47
Issue
4
Year of publication
1997
Pages
1172 - 1178
Database
ISI
SICI code
0020-7713(1997)47:4<1172:ROTGE->2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
The results of investigations on the morphology, physiology, pigment c omposition, light-harvesting antenna and reaction center organization, and electron carriers of five Erythromicrobium representatives, and o n phylogenetic relations among them, are summarized. On tbe basis of c lear phenotypic differences and distinct phylogenetic positions shown by 16S ribosomal DNA analysis, the tentative species ''Erythromicrobiu m sibiricum'' and ''Erythromicrobium ursincola'' are formally describe d as the type species of two new genera: Sandaracinobacter sibiricus g en. nov., sp. nov., and Erythromonas ursincola gen. nov., sp. nov., re spectively. The genus Erythromicrobium is at present composed of the t ypes species, E. ramosum, and two species, ''E. hydrolyticum'' and ''E . ezovicum,'' whose nomenclature is yet to be validated. All species s tudied group within the alpha-4 subclass of Proteobacteria.