Gemmatimonas aurantiaca

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A Microbial Biorealm page on the genus Gemmatimonas aurantiaca

G. aurantiaca T-27 under the microscope [Zhang et al.]

Classification

Higher order taxa

Bacteria; Gemmatimonadetes; Gemmatimonadales; Gemmatimonadaceae; Gemmatimonas.

Species

Gemmatimonas aurantiaca T-27

Description and significance

G. aurantiaca T27 is an aerobic rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that is non-sporulating. It is motile by the use of flagella and it was isolated by anaerobic-aerobic sequential batch reactor under enhanced biological phosphorus removal conditions for wastewater treatment. G. aurantiaca T27 is a very slow growing bacterium and is a polyphosphate-accummulating bacteria.

Genome structure

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Genome structure of G. aurantiaca [Genome Information Broker]

Cell structure and metabolism

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Ecology

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Pathology

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Current Research

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Cool Factor

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References

Gemmatimonas aurantiaca T-27." Genome Information Broker. Web.
Zhang, Hui, Yuji Sekiguchi, Satoshi Hanada, Philip Hugenholtz, Hongik Kim, Yoichi Kamagata, and Kazunori Nakamura. "Gemmatimonas Aurantiaca Gen. Nov., Sp. Nov., a Gram-negative, Aerobic, Polyphosphate-accumulating Micro-organism, the First Cultured Representative of the New Bacterial Phylum Gemmatimonadetes Phyl. Nov." International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology.

Edited by student of Iris Keren: NEUS2012 Amal Mohamed, Soonji Kim, Jaclyn Egitto