Roseospirillum.

Imhoff, Johannes F. (2015) Roseospirillum. In: Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. . Wiley, Chichester, p. 1. DOI 10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00900.

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Abstract

Ro.se.o.spi.ril' lum. L. adj. roseus rosy; M.L. neut. n. spirillum the spiral, a bacterial genus; M.L. neut. n. Roseospirillum the rosy spiral.

Proteobacteria / Alphaproteobacteria / Rhodospirillales / Rhodospirillaceae / Roseospirillum

Cells are vibrioid to spiral shaped, motile by means of polar flagella and multiply by binary fission. Gram negative and belong to the Alphaproteobacteria . Internal photosynthetic membranes are present as lamellar stacks. Photosynthetic pigments are bacteriochlorophyll a and carotenoids.

The mol% G + C of the DNA is: 71.2.

Type species: Roseospirillum parvum Glaeser and Overmann 2001, 793 (Effective publication: Glaeser and Overmann 1999, 414.)

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 12:56
Last Modified: 14 Jan 2022 12:56
URI: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/54872

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