Kingdom Bacteria Scientific name Brevundimonas Phylum Proteobacteria Order Caulobacterales | Family Caulobacteraceae Higher classification Caulobacteraceae Rank Genus | |
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Similar Bacteria, Proteobacteria, Sphingomonas, Comamonas, Stenotrophomonas | ||
Etymology
The name Brevundimonas derives from: Latin adjective brevis, short; Latin feminine gender noun unda, a wave; Latin feminine gender noun monas (μονάς / μονάδα), nominally meaning "a unit", but in effect meaning a bacterium; New Latin feminine gender noun Brevundimonas, bacteria with short wavelength flagella.
Members of the genus Brevundimonas can be referred to as brevundimonad (viz. Trivialisation of names).
Survival on Mars
Brevundimonas is one of few bacteria showing high survival rates under simulated Martian conditions. Results from one of these experimental irradiation experiments, combined with previous radiation modeling, indicate that Brevundimonas sp. MV.7 emplaced only 30 cm deep in Martian dust could survive the cosmic radiation for up to 100,000 years before suffering 10⁶ population reduction.