Genus Arsenicibacter
Warning: In the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature, an arrow (→) only indicates the sequence of valid publication of names and does not mean that the last name in the sequence must be used (see: Introduction).
Number of species, including synonyms, cited in this file: 1
Number of subspecies, including synonyms, cited in this file: 0
Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").
Arsenicibacter Huang et al. 2017, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Arsenicibacter rosenii Huang et al. 2017.
Etymology: L. n. arsenicum, arsenic; N.L. masc. n. bacter, rod or staff; N.L. masc. n. Arsenicibacter, a rod metabolizing arsenic.
Valid publication: HUANG, K., XU, Y., ZHANG, J., CHEN, C., GAO, F. and ZHAO, F. J. 2017. Arsenicibacter rosenii gen. nov., sp. nov., an efficient arsenic methylating and volatilizing bacterium isolated from an arsenic-contaminated paddy soil. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 67, 3186-3191.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Arsenicibacter rosenii Huang et al. 2017, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) SM-1=CCTCC AB 2017086=KCTC 52624.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: KT989310.
Whole-genome sequence accession no.: MORL00000000.
Etymology: N.L. masc. gen. n. rosenii, of Rosen, to honour Barry P. Rosen, a respected microbiologist and biochemist, for his great contributions in the field of microbial arsenic transformation, especially in As methylation.
Source: Environmental - soil.
Valid publication: HUANG, K., XU, Y., ZHANG, J., CHEN, C., GAO, F. and ZHAO, F. J. 2017. Arsenicibacter rosenii gen. nov., sp. nov., an efficient arsenic methylating and volatilizing bacterium isolated from an arsenic-contaminated paddy soil. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 67, 3186-3191.
Original article in IJSEM Online