Kingdom Bacteria Family Comamonadaceae Genus Rhodoferax Order Burkholderiales | Class Betaproteobacteria Phylum Proteobacteria Rank Species | |
Similar Rhodoferax, Burkholderiales, Comamonadaceae, Polaromonas, Variovorax | ||
Rhodoferax antarcticus is a psychrophilic, phototrophic, nonsulfur, highly motile bacterium from the genus Rhodoferax, which was isolated from an Antarctic microbial mat in Ross Island. R. antarcticus is the first Betaproteobacteria to have its genome sequenced.
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