Alcaligenaceae

Alcaligenaceae
"Bordetella bronchiseptica"
Bordetella bronchiseptica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Betaproteobacteria
Order: Burkholderiales
Family: Alcaligenaceae
De Ley et al., 1986[1]
Genera[2][3]

The Alcaligenaceae are a family of bacteria, included in the order Burkholderiales. Members are found in water, soil, humans, and other animals.[4] Some species, like Bordetella, are pathogenic for humans and for some other animals.[4]

  1. ^ De Ley, Jozef; Segers, P.; Kersters, K.; Mannheim, W.; Lievens, A. (1986). "Intra- and Intergeneric Similarities of the Bordetella Ribosomal Ribonucleic Acid Cistrons: Proposal for a New Family, Alcaligenaceae". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 36 (3): 405–414. doi:10.1099/00207713-36-3-405.
  2. ^ "Alcaligenaceae". NCBI taxonomy. Bethesda, MD: National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  3. ^ "Taxonomy - Alcaligenaceae". UniProt. UniProt Consortium. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  4. ^ a b 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: Springer. pp. 354–361. ISBN 978-0-387-24145-6.