Albibacter methylovorans

Albibacter methylovorans is a methylotrophic, aerobic and facultatively autotrophic bacteria from the genus Microvirga which has been isolated from dichloromethane contaminated ground water in Switzerland.[1][3][4][5]

Albibacter methylovorans
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order: Hyphomicrobiales
Family: Methylocystaceae
Genus: Albibacter
Species:
A. methylovorans
Binomial name
Albibacter methylovorans
Doronina et al. 2001[1]
Type strain
DM10, DSM 13819, DSM 22840, VKM B-2236[2]
Synonyms[3]
  • Albobacter methylovorans

Etymology

New Latin noun methylum (from French méthyle, back-formation from French méthylène, coined from Greek noun methu, wine and Greek noun hulē, wood), the methyl group; New Latin pref. methylo-, pertaining to the methyl radical; Latin participle adjective vorans, devouring, eating; New Latin participle adjective methylovorans, digesting methyl groups.)[5]

References
  1. LPSN lpsn.dsmz.de
  2. Straininfo of Albibacter methylovorans
  3. UniProt
  4. Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen
  5. Doronina, NV; Trotsenko, YA; Tourova, TP; Kuznetsov, BB; Leisinger, T (May 2001). "Albibacter methylovorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel aerobic, facultatively autotrophic and methylotrophic bacterium that utilizes dichloromethane". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 51 (Pt 3): 1051–8. doi:10.1099/00207713-51-3-1051. PMID 11411673.

Further reading
  • Brenner, Don J; Krieg, Noel R; Staley, James T, eds. (2005). Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology (2nd ed.). New York: Springer. ISBN 0-387-29298-5.
  • Maheshwari, Dinesh K, ed. (2011). Bacteria in agrobiology plant growth responses. New York: Springer. ISBN 978-3-642-20332-9.



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