Sphingomonas stygia
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| Sphingomonas stygia Balkwill et al. 1997
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Novosphingobium stygium (Takeuchi et al. 2001) | |
Sphingomonas stygia is a species of bacteria. It is an aromatic compound-degrading bacteria, it is gram-negative, non-spore-forming, non-motile and rod-shaped. It is found in deep-terrestrial-subsurface sediments.[1]
References[]
- ^ Balkwill, D. L.; Drake, G. R.; Reeves, R. H.; Fredrickson, J. K.; White, D. C.; Ringelberg, D. B.; Chandler, D. P.; Romine, M. F.; Kennedy, D. W.; Spadoni, C. M. (1997). "Taxonomic Study of Aromatic-Degrading Bacteria from Deep-Terrestrial-Subsurface Sediments and Description of Sphingomonas aromaticivorans sp. nov., Sphingomonas subterranea sp. nov., and Sphingomonas stygia sp. nov". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 47 (1): 191–201. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-1-191. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 8995822.
Further reading[]
- Dworkin, Martin, and Stanley Falkow, eds. The Prokaryotes: Vol. 7: Proteobacteria: Delta and Epsilon Subclasses. Deeply Rooting Bacteria. Vol. 7. Springer, 2006.
- Takeuchi, Mariko; Hamana, Koei; Hiraishi, Akira (2001). "Proposal of the genus Sphingomonas sensu stricto and three new genera, Sphingobium, Novosphingobium and Sphingopyxis, on the basis of phylogenetic and chemotaxonomic analyses". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 51 (4): 1405–1417. doi:10.1099/00207713-51-4-1405. PMID 11491340.
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Categories:
- Sphingomonas
- Bacteria described in 1997
- Sphingomonadales stubs