Imhoff, Johannes F. (2015) Isochromatium. In: Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. . Wiley, Chichester, p. 1. DOI 10.1002/9781118960608.gbm01107.

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Abstract

I' so.chro.ma' ti.um. Gr. adj. isos equal, similar; Chromatium a genus name; M.L. neut. n. Isochromatium the similar Chromatium, the bacterium similar to Chromatium.

Proteobacteria / Gammaproteobacteria / Chromatiales / Chromatiaceae / Isochromatium

Cells straight to slightly curved rods, multiply by binary fission, motile by a polar tuft of flagella. Gram negative, belong to the Gammaproteobacteria, and contain internal photosynthetic membranes of vesicular type with bacteriochlorophyll a and carotenoids as photosynthetic pigments.

The mol% G + C of the DNA is: 62.2–62.8.

Type species: Isochromatium buderi (Trüper and Jannasch 1968) Imhoff, Süling and Petri 1998b, 1141 (Chromatium buderi Trüper and Jannasch 1968, 364.)

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 10:22
Last Modified:	14 Jan 2022 10:22
URI:	https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/54841

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