''Polynucleobacter rarus'' is an aerobic, chemo-

organotrophic An organotroph is an organism that obtains hydrogen or electrons from organic substrates. This term is used in microbiology to classify and describe organisms based on how they obtain electrons for their respiration processes. Some organotrophs su ...

catalase Catalase is a common enzyme found in nearly all living organisms exposed to oxygen (such as bacteria, plants, and animals) which catalyzes the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide to water and oxygen. It is a very important enzyme in protecting t ...

- and

oxidase In biochemistry, an oxidase is an enzyme that catalyzes oxidation-reduction reactions, especially one involving dioxygen (O2) as the electron acceptor. In reactions involving donation of a hydrogen atom, oxygen is reduced to water (H2O) or hydro ...

-positive, nonmotile

bacterium Bacteria (; singular: bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell. They constitute a large domain of prokaryotic microorganisms. Typically a few micrometres in length, bacteria were among ...

of the genus ''

Polynucleobacter ''Polynucleobacter'' is a genus of bacteria, originally established by Heckmann and Schmidt (1987) to exclusively harbor obligate endosymbionts of ciliates belonging to the genus '' Euplotes''. Recently, several new ''Polynucleobacter'' species ...

'', isolated from an acidic lake in

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References

External links

Type strain of ''Polynucleobacter rarus'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Burkholderiaceae Bacteria described in 2011 {{betaproteobacteria-stub