Azoarcus tolulyticus
Azoarcus tolulyticus is a species of bacteria. It is a nitrogen-fixing bacteria.[1] It is notable for degrading toluene. Tol-4 is its type strain.
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| Species: | Azoarcus tolulyticus Zhou et al., 1995 |
References
- Zhou, J.; Fries, M. R.; Chee-Sanford, J. C.; Tiedje, J. M. (1995). "Phylogenetic Analyses of a New Group of Denitrifiers Capable of Anaerobic Growth on Toluene and Description of Azoarcus tolulyticus sp. nov". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 45 (3): 500–506. doi:10.1099/00207713-45-3-500. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 8590677.
Further reading
- Hurek T, Reinhold-Hurek B (June 1995). "Identification of grass-associated and toluene-degrading diazotrophs, Azoarcus spp., by analyses of partial 16S ribosomal DNA sequences". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 61 (6): 2257–61. doi:10.1128/AEM.61.6.2257-2261.1995. PMC 167497. PMID 7793946. Retrieved 2013-07-30.
- Whitman, William B., et al., eds. Bergey’s manual® of systematic bacteriology. Vol. 2. Springer, 2012.
- Falkow, Stanley; Dworkin, Martin (2006). The prokaryotes: a handbook on the biology of bacteria. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 0-387-25495-1.
- Malik, Kauser A.; Ladha, J. K.; Bruijn, F. J. de (1997). Opportunities for biological nitrogen fixation in rice and other non-legumes: papers presented at the second working group meeting of the frontier project on nitrogen fixation in rice held at the National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE), Faisalabad, Pakistan, 13-15 October 1996. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 0-7923-4514-2.
- Zhou J, Palumbo AV, Tiedje JM (June 1997). "Sensitive detection of a novel class of toluene-degrading denitrifiers, Azoarcus tolulyticus, with small-subunit rRNA primers and probes". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 63 (6): 2384–90. doi:10.1128/AEM.63.6.2384-2390.1997. PMC 168532. PMID 9172359. Retrieved 2013-07-31.
External links
- LPSN
- "Azoarcus tolulyticus" at the Encyclopedia of Life
- Type strain of Azoarcus tolulyticus at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
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