Thioflavicoccus

Thioflavicoccus
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Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Gammaproteobacteria
Order: Chromatiales
Family: Chromatiaceae
Genus: Thioflavicoccus
Imhoff and Pfennig 2001[1]
Species:
T. mobilis
Binomial name
Thioflavicoccus mobilis
Imhoff and Pfennig 2001

Thioflavicoccus is a Gram-negative, obligately phototrophic, strictly anaerobic and motile genus of bacteria from the family of Chromatiaceae with one known species (Thioflavicoccus mobilis).[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Thioflavicoccus mobilis was first discovered during a 1986 "Microbial Diversity" summer course. The microbe was isolated from a flat, laminated microbial mat in a salt marsh and was determined to be a marine bacterium.[7]

The culture was collected from the Great Sippewisset Salt Marsh in Woods Hole, Massachusetts; it was found to be the first purple sulfur bacteria that contained bacteriochlorophyll b as the main photosynthetic pigment.[7] When T. mobilis was first analyzed, it was misidentified as Thiocapsa pfennigii due to its similarities in morphology and structure, but this was later disproved with 16S rDNA sequencing.[7]

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  6. ^ Imhoff, JF; Pfennig, N (January 2001). "Thioflavicoccus mobilis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel purple sulfur bacterium with bacteriochlorophyll b." International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 51 (Pt 1): 105–10. doi:10.1099/00207713-51-1-105. PMID 11211246.
  7. ^ a b c Imhoff, J. F., & Pfennig, N. (2001). Thioflavicoccus mobilis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel purple sulfur bacterium with bacteriochlorophyll b. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 51(1), 105–110. doi: 10.1099/00207713-51-1-105