Thiomonas cuprina

Thiomonas cuprina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Proteobacteria
Class: Betaproteobacteria
Order: Burkholderiales
Family: Comamonadaceae
Genus: Thiomonas
Species: T. cuprina
Binomial name
Thiomonas cuprina
Moreira and Amils 1997[1]
Type strain
DSM 5495, NBRC 102094, NBRC 102145[2]

Thiomonas cuprina is an As(III)-oxidizing bacterium from the genus Thiomonas. It is proposed to be reclassified, along with Thiomonas arsenivorans, as strains of Thiomonas delicata.[3]

References

  1. http://www.bacterio.cict.fr/t/thiomonas.html
  2. http://www.straininfo.net/strains/159218
  3. Battaglia-Brunet, F; El Achbouni, H; Quemeneur, M; Hallberg, KB; Kelly, DP; Joulian, C (2011). "Proposal that the arsenite-oxidizing organisms Thiomonas cuprina and 'Thiomonas arsenivorans' be reclassified as strains of Thiomonas delicata, and emended description of Thiomonas delicata". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 61: 2816–21. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.023408-0. PMID 21216915.


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