Name: Methylocystis rosea Wartiainen et al. 2006

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ro.se’a. L. fem. adj. rosea, rose-coloured, rosy

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-1196; DSM 17261; SV97

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AJ414656 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Wartiainen I, Hestnes AG, McDonald IR, Svenning MM. Methylocystis rosea sp. nov., a novel methanotrophic bacterium from Arctic wetland soil, Svalbard, Norway (78 degrees N). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:541-547.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 56, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1181-1182.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 8 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Hördt et al. (2020). Publication: Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468.

Parent taxon: Methylocystis (ex Whittenbury et al. 1970) Bowman et al. 1993

Assigned by: Wartiainen I, Hestnes AG, McDonald IR, Svenning MM. Methylocystis rosea sp. nov., a novel methanotrophic bacterium from Arctic wetland soil, Svalbard, Norway (78 degrees N). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:541-547.

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Record number: 777994