Cycloclasticus pugetii

Cycloclasticus pugetii
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: "Proteobacteria"
Class: Gammaproteobacteria
Order: Thiotrichales
Family: Piscirickettsiaceae
Genus: Cycloclasticus
Species: C. pugetii
Binomial name
Cycloclasticus pugetii
Dyksterhouse et al. 1995

Cycloclasticus pugetii is a species of bacteria, named in honor of Peter Puget. It is found in marine sediments. It is notable for being an aromatic hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria (including naphthalene, phenanthrene, anthracene and toluene). It is aerobic, gram-negative, rod-shaped and motile by means of single polar flagella. Strain PS-1 is its type strain.[1]

References

  1. Dyksterhouse, S. E.; Gray, J. P.; Herwig, R. P.; Lara, J. C.; Staley, J. T. (1995). "Cycloclasticus pugetii gen. nov., sp. nov., an Aromatic Hydrocarbon-Degrading Bacterium from Marine Sediments". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 45 (1): 116–123. doi:10.1099/00207713-45-1-116. ISSN 0020-7713.

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