Aquipluma
Appearance
| Aquipluma | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Pseudomonadati |
| Phylum: | Bacteroidota |
| Class: | Bacteroidia |
| Order: | Bacteroidales |
| Family: | Prolixibacteraceae |
| Genus: | Aquipluma Watanabe et al. 2020[1] |
| Species | |
Aquipluma is a facultatively anaerobic genus of Gram-negative bacteria from the family of Prolixibacteraceae with one known species (Aquipluma nitroreducens).[1][2] A. nitroreducens was first isolated from a freshwater lake in Japan. A. nitroreducens has the ability to reduce nitrate.[2]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 "Genus: Aquipluma". LPSN.DSMZ.de.
- 1 2 Watanabe, Miho; Kojima, Hisaya; Fukui, Manabu (2020). "Aquipluma nitroreducens gen. nov. sp. nov., a novel facultatively anaerobic bacterium isolated from a freshwater lake". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 70 (12): 6408–6413. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.004551. PMID 33156751. S2CID 226274825.