Roseobacter

Roseobacter
Roseobacter strain HIMB11 [1]
Scientific classification
Domain:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Pseudomonadota
Class:
Alphaproteobacteria
Order:
Rhodobacterales
Family:
Rhodobacteraceae
Genus:
Roseobacter

Shiba 1991
Species

In taxonomy, Roseobacter is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae. The Roseobacter clade falls within the {alpha}-3 subclass of the class Alphaproteobacteria. The first strain descriptions appeared in 1991 which described members Roseobacter litoralis and Roseobacter denitrificans, both pink-pigmented bacteriochlorophyll a-producing strains isolated from marine algae. The role members of the Roseobacter lineage play in marine biogeochemical cycles and climate change cannot be overestimated. Roseobacters make up 25% of coastal marine bacteria and members of this lineage process a significant portion of the total carbon in the marine environment.[3] Roseobacter clade plays an important role in global carbon and sulphur cycles. It can also degrade aromatic compounds, uptake trace metal, and form symbiotic relationship. In term of its application, Roseobacter clade produces bioactive compounds, has been used widely in aquaculture and quorum sensing.

  1. ^ Durham, B.P., Grote, J., Whittaker, K.A., Bender, S.J., Luo, H., Grim, S.L., Brown, J.M., Casey, J.R., Dron, A., Florez-Leiva, L. and Krupke, A. (2014) "Draft genome sequence of marine alphaproteobacterial strain HIMB11, the first cultivated representative of a unique lineage within the Roseobacter clade possessing an unusually small genome". Standards in genomic sciences, 9(3): 632. doi:10.4056/sigs.4998989.
  2. ^ a b Köpke, Beate (2007). Verteilung, Zusammensetzung und Aktivitäten mikrobieller Gemeinschaften in Wattsedimenten von der Oberfläche bis in mehrere Meter Tiefe [Distribution, composition and activity of microbial communities in tidal flats from the surface to a depth of several meters] (PDF) (PhD). Universität Oldenburg.
  3. ^ See the NCBI webpage on Roseobacter. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.