Roseiflexus castenholzii

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Classification

Domain: Bacteria

Phylum: Chloroflexi

Class: Chloroflexi

Order: Chloroflexales

Family: Chloroflexaceae

Species

NCBI: Taxonomy

Roseiflexus castenholzii

Description and Significance

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Genome Structure

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Cell Structure, Metabolism and Life Cycle

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Ecology and Pathogenesis

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References

Collins, A. M. "Light-harvesting and the primary photochemistry of Roseiflexus castenholzii". Ann Arbor: ProQuest, 2010.

Hanada, S., Takaichi, S., Matsuura, K., and Nakamura, K. "Roseiflexus castenholzii gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, filamentous, photosynthetic bacterium that lacks chlorosomes". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 2002. Volume 52. p. 187-193.

Van der Meer, M. T., Klatt, C. G., Wood, J., Bryant, D. A., Bateson, M. M., Lammerts, L., Schouten, S., Damste, J. S., Madigan, M. T., and Ward, D. M. "Cultivation and genomic, nutritional, and lipid biomarker characterization of Roseiflexus strains closely related to predominant in situ populations inhabity Yellowstone hot spring microbial mats". Journal of Bacteriology. 2010. Volume 192. Issue 12. p. 3033-3042.

Van der Meer, M. T., Schouten, S., Bateson, M. M., Nubel, U., Wieland, A., Kuhl, M., de Leeuw, J. W., Sinninghe Damste, J. S., and Ward, D. M. "Diel variations in carbon metabolism by green nonsulfur-like bacteria in alkaline siliceous hot spring microbial mats from Yellowstone National Park". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 2005. Volume 71. Issue 7. p. 3978-3986.

Yamada, M., Zhang, H., Hanada, S., Nagashima, K. V., Shimada, K., and Matsuura, K. "Structural and spectroscopic properties of a reaction center complex from the chlorosome-lacking filamentous anoxygenic phototrophic bacterium Roseiflexus castenholzii". Journal of Bacteriology. 2005. Volume 187. Issue 5. p. 1702-1709.

[Sample reference] Takai, K., Sugai, A., Itoh, T., and Horikoshi, K. "Palaeococcus ferrophilus gen. nov., sp. nov., a barophilic, hyperthermophilic archaeon from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 2000. Volume 50. p. 489-500.

Author

Page authored by Jessica Lefere and Bernice Li, students of Prof. Jay Lennon at Michigan State University.

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