Cupriavidus

Cupriavidus
Cupriavidus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Proteobacteria
Class: Beta Proteobacteria
Order: Burkholderiales
Family: Burkholderiaceae
Genus: Cupriavidus
Makkar and Casida 1987
Species

C. basilensis
C. campinensis
C. gilardii
C. laharis
C. metallidurans
C. necator
C. oxalaticus
C. pauculus
C. pinatubonensis
C. respiraculi
C. taiwanensis

Cupriavidus is a genus of bacteria that includes the former genus Wautersia. [1] The cells are short rod-shaped. Furthermore, they are motile by peritrichous flagella, obligat aerobic and chemoorganotroph.[2]

References

  1. ^ Wautersia entry in LPSN [Euzéby, J.P. (1997). "List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet". Int J Syst Bacteriol 47 (2): 590-2. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-2-590. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 9103655. http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/reprint/47/2/590. ]
  2. ^ Garrity, George M.; Brenner, Don J.; Krieg, Noel R.; Staley, James T. (eds.) (2005). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Volume Two: The Proteobacteria, Part C: The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria. New York, New York: Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-24145-6

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