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Acidisphaera

Genus of bacteria

Genus of bacteria

Acidisphaera is a genus in the phylum Pseudomonadota (Bacteria). The genus contains a single species,

  • strictly aerobic, light preferred
  • mesophilic
  • acidophilic (3.5–6.0 pH, optima of 4.5-5.0)
  • bacteriochlorophyll (BChl a) and carotenoids production (salmon-pink colonies), the former contained zinc if grown in the presence of 1 mM zinc sulfate.
  • chemo-organotrophic
  • Gram-negative, as expected from a proteobacterium
  • isolated from acidic hot springs and mine drainage
  • non-motile
  • cocci / coccobacilli
  • Part of the major acidophilic alphaproteobacterial group with the genera Acidiphilium and Rhodopila

Etymology

The name Acidisphaera derives from: Neo-Latin noun acidum (from Latin adjective acidus, sour), an acid; Latin feminine gender noun sphaera, a ball, globe, sphere; Neo-Latin feminine gender noun Acidisphaera, acid (-requiring) coccoid microorganism.

While the specific epithet rubrifaciens comes from the Latin adjective ruber -bra -brum, red; Latin v. facio, to make; Neo-Latin participle adjective rubrifaciens, red-producing.)

References

References

  1. "''Acidisphaera rubrifaciens'' gen. nov., sp. nov., an aerobic bacteriochlorophyll-containing bacterium isolated from acidic environments -- Hiraishi et al. 50 (4): 1539 -- International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology".
  2. {{lpsn. a/acidisphaera.html. Acidisphaera
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