''Rhodoplanes serenus'' is a

Gram-negative Gram-negative bacteria are bacteria that do not retain the crystal violet stain used in the Gram staining method of bacterial differentiation. They are characterized by their cell envelopes, which are composed of a thin peptidoglycan cell wall ...

phototroph Phototrophs () are organisms that carry out photon capture to produce complex organic compounds (e.g. carbohydrates) and acquire energy. They use the energy from light to carry out various cellular metabolic processes. It is a common misconcep ...

ic, non-sulfur, motile bacterium from the genus of

Rhodoplanes ''Rhodoplanes'' is a phototrophic genus of bacteria. ''Rhodoplanes'' produces hopanoids like diplopterol, tetrahymanol, 2-methyldiplopterol, 2-methyltetrahymanol, bacteriohopanetetrol, bacteriohopaneaminotriol and carotenoids like spirill ...

which has been isolated from pond water from the Sanshiro-ike pond near the University of Tokyo in

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References

External links

Type strain of ''Rhodoplanes serenus'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Nitrobacteraceae Bacteria described in 2009 {{Nitrobacteraceae-stub