Blastomonas

Blastomonas
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Alphaproteobacteria
Order:	Sphingomonadales
Family:	Sphingomonadaceae
Genus:	Blastomonas Sly and Cahill 1997[1]
Type species
Blastomonas natatoria[1]
Species[1]
Blastomonas aquatica Xiao et al. 2015 Blastomonas fulva Lee et al. 2017 Blastomonas marina Meng et al. 2017 Blastomonas natatoria (Sly 1985) Sly and Cahill 1997 Blastomonas quesadae Castro et al. 2017 Blastomonas ursincola (Yurkov et al. 1997) Hiraishi et al. 2000
Synonyms
Erythromonas Yurkov et al. 1997[2]

Blastomonas is a Gram-negative, photoheterotrophic, strictly aerobic and non-spore-forming bacteria genus from the family of Sphingomonadaceae.[1][2][3][4]

References

1. Parte, A.C. "Blastomonas". LPSN.
2. "Blastomonas". www.uniprot.org.
3. Sly, Lindsay I.; Hugenholtz, Philip (1 January 2015). "Blastomonas". Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: 1–7. doi:10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00918. ISBN 9781118960608.
4. Peter T., Doran; W. Berry, Lyons; Diane M., McKnight (2010). Life in Antarctic Deserts and other Cold Dry Environments: Astrobiological Analogs. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-48754-2.

Further reading

• Zeng, Y.; Koblizek, M.; Feng, F.; Liu, Y.; Wu, Z.; Jian, J. (14 March 2013). "Whole-Genome Sequences of an Aerobic Anoxygenic Phototroph, Blastomonas sp. Strain AAP53, Isolated from a Freshwater Desert Lake in Inner Mongolia, China". Genome Announcements. 1 (2): e00071-13–e00071-13. doi:10.1128/genomeA.00071-13. PMC 3622956. PMID 23516202.
• Xiao, N.; Liu, Y.; Liu, X.; Gu, Z.; Jiao, N.; Liu, H.; Zhou, Y.; Shen, L. (27 February 2015). "Blastomonas aquatica sp. nov., a bacteriochlorophyll-containing bacterium isolated from lake water". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 65 (Pt 5): 1653–1658. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.000153. PMID 25724744.
• George M., Garrity (2005). Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology (2nd ed.). New York: Springer. ISBN 0-387-24145-0.