Rhodobacter
Sign in to saveRhodobacter is a genus of bacteria in the family Rhodobacteraceae. The most famous species of Rhodobacter are Rhodobacter sphaeroides and Rhodobacter capsulatus, which are used as model organisms to study bacterial photosynthesis.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomBacteria
- PhylumProteobacteria
- ClassAlphaproteobacteria
- OrderRhodobacterales
- FamilyRhodobacteraceae
Habitatmarine, brackish
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Research
6,540 papers- Rhodobacter sphaeroides: complexity in chemotactic signalling.Trends in microbiology · 2008
- Postgenomic adventures with Rhodobacter sphaeroides.Annual review of microbiology · 2007
- Living in a Foster Home: The Single Subpolar Flagellum Fla1 of Rhodobacter sphaeroides.Biomolecules · 2020
- The bc1 complexes of Rhodobacter sphaeroides and Rhodobacter capsulatus.Journal of bioenergetics and biomembranes · 1993
- Control of photosystem formation in Rhodobacter sphaeroides.Journal of bacteriology · 1998
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Paracoccaceae
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- Commons category
- Rhodobacter
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Rhodobacter
- Gram staining
- gram-negative bacteria
- LPSN URL
- lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/rhodobacter
- taxonomic type
- Rhodobacter capsulatus
- nomenclatural type of
- Rhodobacterales
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Encyclopedic overview
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Rhodobacter is a genus of bacteria in the family Rhodobacteraceae. The most famous species of Rhodobacter are Rhodobacter sphaeroides and Rhodobacter capsulatus, which are used as model organisms to study bacterial photosynthesis.
==References==
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