Halomonas
Sign in to saveHalomonas is a genus of halophilic (salt-tolerating) bacteria. It grows over the range of 5 to 25% NaCl.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomBacteria
- PhylumProteobacteria
- ClassGammaproteobacteria
- OrderPseudomonadales
- FamilyHalomonadaceae
Habitatmarine
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Research
1,959 papers- Halomonas as a chassis.Essays in biochemistry · 2021
- Halomonas spp., as chassis for low-cost production of chemicals.Applied microbiology and biotechnology · 2022
- Halomonas elongata: a microbial source of highly stable enzymes for applied biotechnology.Applied microbiology and biotechnology · 2023
- Biotechnological impacts of Halomonas: a promising cell factory for industrially relevant biomolecules.Biotechnology & genetic engineering reviews · 2023
- Establishing Halomonas as a chassis for industrial biotechnology: advances in synthetic biology tool development and metabolic engineering strategies.Microbial cell factories · 2025
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Halomonadaceae
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- taxon name
- Halomonas
- Gram staining
- gram-negative bacteria
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- www.bacterio.net/halomonas.html
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Description
- Ecology
- Species
- Pathogenic potential
- Health
- Etymology
- References
Halomonas is a genus of halophilic (salt-tolerating) bacteria. It grows over the range of 5 to 25% NaCl.
The type species of this genus is Halomonas elongata.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Halomonas” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.