Rhizorhabdus wittichii

Rhizorhabdus wittichii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order: Sphingomonadales
Family: Sphingomonadaceae
Genus: Rhizorhabdus
Species:
R. wittichii
Binomial name
Rhizorhabdus wittichii
(Yabuuchi et al. 2001) Hördt et al. 2020[1]
Synonyms

Sphingomonas wittichii Yabuuchi et al. 2001

The species Rhizorhabdus wittichii, formerly Sphingomonas wittichii, is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped motile bacterium, with an optimum growth temperature at 30 °C.[2] It forms a greyish white colony.[3] It has been found to have a 67 mol% of DNA G+C content.[3]

The R. wittichii RW1 genome consists of 5,915,246 bp and consists of a single circular chromosome and two plasmids.[4]

  1. ^ Page Species: Rhizorhabdus wittichii on "LPSN - List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature". Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
  2. ^ Yabuuchi E, Yamamoto H, Terakubo S, Okamura N, Naka T, Fujiwara N, et al. (March 2001). "Proposal of Sphingomonas wittichii sp. nov. for strain RW1T, known as a dibenzo-p-dioxin metabolizer". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 51 (Pt 2): 281–292. doi:10.1099/00207713-51-2-281. PMID 11321072.
  3. ^ a b Kim M, Kang O, Zhang Y, Ren L, Chang X, Jiang F, et al. (January 2016). "Sphingoaurantiacus polygranulatus gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from high-Arctic tundra soil, and emended descriptions of the genera Sandarakinorhabdus, Polymorphobacter and Rhizorhabdus and the species Sandarakinorhabdus limnophila, Rhizorhabdus argentea and Sphingomonas wittichii". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 66 (1): 91–100. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.000677. PMID 26475309.
  4. ^ "PATRIC". patricbrc.org. Retrieved 2022-07-20.