Roseobacter litoralis
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R. litoralis
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Roseobacter litoralis
Shiba, 1991

Roseobacter litoralis is a species of aerobic pink-pigmented bacteria.[1] It contains Bacteriochlorophyll a. It contains spheroidenone, does not synthesize bacteriochlorophyll anaerobically, but shows aerobic phototrophic activity. It is also considered a photosynthetic marine bacterium. [2] Cells are ovoid or rod-shaped and motile by subpolar flagella. R. litoralis does not reduce nitrate, while R. dentrificans does. R. litoralis can be found in marine seaweed.

References

  1. Shiba, Tsuneo (1991). "Roseobacter litoralis gen. nov., sp. nov., and Roseobacter denitrificans sp. nov., Aerobic Pink-Pigmented Bacteria which Contain Bacteriochlorophyll a". Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 14 (2): 140–145. doi:10.1016/S0723-2020(11)80292-4. ISSN 0723-2020.
  2. Nojiri, Akane; Ogita, Shinjiro; Isogai, Yasuhiro; Nishida, Hiromi (2015). "Characterization of giant spheroplasts generated from the aerobic anoxygenic photosynthetic marine bacterium Roseobacter litorali". The Journal of General and Applied Microbiology: 61(2), 44–49. doi:10.2323/jgam.61.44.


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