Ahrensia

In taxonomy, Ahrensia is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae.[1] Ahrensia is named after the German microbiologist R. Ahrens. The cells are rod-shaped and motile. They are strictly aerobic.[2]

Ahrensia
Scientific classification
Domain:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Proteobacteria
Class:
Alphaproteobacteria
Order:
Rhodobacterales
Family:
Rhodobacteraceae
Genus:
Ahrensia

Uchino et al. 1999
Species:
A. kielensis
Binomial name
Ahrensia kielensis
(ex Ahrens 1968) Uchino et al. 1999
Synonyms
  • "Agrobacterium kieliense" Ahrens 1968
  • Ahrensia kieliense Uchino et al. 1999

See also

References
  1. See the NCBI webpage on Ahrensia. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
  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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