''Deinobacterium'' is a genus in the ''
Deinococcota
''Deinococcota'' (synonym, ''Deinococcus-Thermus'') is a phylum of bacteria with a single class, ''Deinococci'', that are highly resistant to environmental hazards, also known as extremophiles.
These bacteria have thick cell walls that give them ...
'' phylum (
Bacteria
Bacteria (; singular: bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one Cell (biology), biological cell. They constitute a large domain (biology), domain of prokaryotic microorganisms. Typically a few micrometr ...
). Not to be confused with ''Deinobacter'', a disused name for ''
Deinococcus''.
Etymology
The name ''Deinobacterium'' derives from:
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
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*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
adjective ''deinos (δεινός)'', dreadful, strange;
New Latin
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neuter gender
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noun ''bacterium'', nominally meaning "a rod", but in effect meaning a bacterium;
New Latin
New Latin (also called Neo-Latin or Modern Latin) is the revival of Literary Latin used in original, scholarly, and scientific works since about 1500. Modern scholarly and technical nomenclature, such as in zoological and botanical taxonomy ...
masculine gender noun ''Deinobacterium'', strange bacterium.
Species
The genus contains a single species, namely ''
D. chartae'' ( Ekman ''et al''. 2011, (Type species of the genus).;
Latin
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genitive case noun ''chartae'', of/from paper.)
This bacterium is:
* rod-shaped
* non-spore-forming
* non-motile, aerobic
* oxidase and catalase-positive
* radiation-resistant bacterium
* pale pink colonies on oligotrophic medium at 12 to 50 °C (optimum 37 to 45 °C) and at pH 6 to 10.3
* peptidoglycan type A3β with L-Orn–Gly–Gly
* quinone: MK-8
* CG 67%
* isolated from biofilm collected from a Finnish paper mill
See also
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Bacterial taxonomy
Bacterial taxonomy is the taxonomy, i.e. the rank-based classification, of bacteria.
In the scientific classification established by Carl Linnaeus, each species has to be assigned to a genus ( binary nomenclature), which in turn is a lower lev ...
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Microbiology
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List of bacterial orders
This article lists the orders of the Bacteria. The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
and the phylogeny is based on 16S ...
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List of bacteria genera This article lists the genera of the bacteria. The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). However many taxonomic names are ...
References
Bacteria genera
Monotypic bacteria genera
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