Hiraishi, Akira and Imhoff, Johannes F. (2015) Incertae Sedis IV. Roseateles. In: Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. . Wiley, Chichester, p. 1. DOI 10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00956.

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Abstract

Ro.se.a.te' les. L. adj. roseus rose-colored, pink; Gr. adj. ateles defective, incomplete; M.L. masc. n. Roseateles the rose-colored incomplete (photosynthetic bacterium).

Proteobacteria / Betaproteobacteria / Burkholderiales / Comamonadaceae / incertae Sedis IV. Roseateles

Cells are straight slender rods, 0.5–0.6 µm wide, motile by means of polar flagella, reproduce by binary fission. Gram negative. Belong to the Betaproteobacteria . Do not form any type of internal membranes. Synthesize bacteriochlorophyll a and carotenoids as photosynthetic pigments.

The mol% G + C of the DNA is: 66.2–66.3.

Type species: Roseateles depolymerans Suyama, Shigematsu, Takaichi, Nodasaka, Fujikawa, Hosoya, Tokiwa, Kanagawa and Hanada 1999, 455.

Document Type:	Book chapter
Research affiliation:	OceanRep > GEOMAR > FB3 Marine Ecology > FB3-MS Marine Symbioses
Main POF Topic:	PT6: Marine Life
Publisher:	Wiley
Date Deposited:	14 Jan 2022 10:18
Last Modified:	14 Jan 2022 10:18
URI:	https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/54839

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