PROTEOBACTERIA >> Gamma >> Halorhodospira >> Halorhodospira halophila
HALORHODOSPIRA HALOPHILA
| Class: | Gamma Proteobacteria |
| Genus: | Halorhodospira |
| Species: | Halorhodospira halophila |
| Description: | An extremely halophilic purple bacterium that was formally a member of the Ectothiorhodospira genus until recently reclassified.Gram-negative. It is considered to be “one of the most halophilic eubacteria known.” Its halophilic nature allows for it to be present in conditions that often have been thought to be too harsh for bacteria, and it is found proliferating in saturated salts such as crystallizer ponds (a hypersaline environment where sodium chloride precipitates) that have a salinity of 25% or higher. This importantly shows that harsh environments once thought to be exclusive to archaea actually contain bacteria as well.Halorhodospira halophila is known as a "purple sulfur bacterium", whose structure consists of two membranes as well as the presence of flagella. |
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| Source: | First isolated from a salt lake mud |
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| Genbank: | NC_008789.1 [Genome] [Nucleotide] |
| Size (Mb): | 2.68 |
| GC %: | 68 |
| Genes: | 2,490 |
| CDS Number: | 2434 |
| Reference: | Anton, Josefa et al. "'Extremely Halophilic Bacteria in Crystallizer Ponds from Solar Salterns". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. American Society for Microbiology. July 2000. June 2007 |
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