Name: "Methylomonas denitrificans" Kits et al. 2015

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: de.ni.tri’fi.cans. N.L. fem. part. adj. denitrificans, denitrifying, the name referring to its ability to reduce nitrate to nitrous oxide

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … de-ni-TRI-fi-kans, feminine

Nomenclatural type: FJG1

16S rRNA gene: CP014476 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Kits KD, Klotz MG, Stein LY. Methane oxidation coupled to nitrate reduction under hypoxia by the Gammaproteobacterium Methylomonas denitrificans, sp. nov. type strain FJG1. Environ Microbiol 2015; 17:3219-3232. 🇨🇦

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Methylomonas (ex Leadbetter 1974) Whittenbury and Krieg 1984

Assigned by: Kits KD, Klotz MG, Stein LY. Methane oxidation coupled to nitrate reduction under hypoxia by the Gammaproteobacterium Methylomonas denitrificans, sp. nov. type strain FJG1. Environ Microbiol 2015; 17:3219-3232. 🇨🇦

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Record number: 1553
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