Imhoff, Johannes F. (2015) Rhabdochromatium. In: Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. . Wiley, Chichester, p. 1. DOI 10.1002/9781118960608.gbm01113.

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Abstract

Rhab' do.chro.ma' tium. Gr. n. rhabdos a rod; Gr. n. chromatium color, paint; M.L. neut. n. Rhabdochromatium colored rod.

Proteobacteria / Gammaproteobacteria / Chromatiales / Chromatiaceae / Rhabdochromatium

Cells straight or slightly bent rods, motile by a polar tuft of flagella, multiply by binary fission. Gram negative, belong to the Gammaproteobacteria, and contain internal photosynthetic membranes of vesicular type in which the photosynthetic pigments bacteriochlorophyll a and carotenoids are located.

The mol% G + C of the DNA is: 60.4.

Type species: Rhabdochromatium marinum Dilling, Liesack and Pfennig 1996, 362 (Effective publication: Dilling, Liesack and Pfennig 1995, 130.)

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 10:53
Last Modified:	14 Jan 2022 10:53
URI:	https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/54849

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