Rhodococcus phenolicus
Appearance
Rhodococcus phenolicus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Bacteria |
Phylum: | Actinomycetota |
Class: | Actinomycetia |
Order: | Mycobacteriales |
Family: | Nocardiaceae |
Genus: | Rhodococcus |
Species: | R. phenolicus
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Binomial name | |
Rhodococcus phenolicus Rehfuss and Urban 2006[1]
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Rhodococcus phenolicus is a bacterium species in the genus Rhodococcus. Phenolicus comes from Neo-Latin noun phenol -olis, phenol; Latin masculine gender suff. -icus, suffix used in adjectives with the sense of belonging to; Neo-Latin masculine gender adjective phenolicus, belonging to phenol. This species is able to degrade phenol as sole carbon source.
References
[edit]- ^ Rehfuss, M.; Urban, J. (2005). "Rhodococcus phenolicus sp. nov., a novel bioprocessor isolated actinomycete with the ability to degrade chlorobenzene, dichlorobenzene and phenol as sole carbon sources". Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 28 (8): 695–701. doi:10.1016/j.syapm.2005.05.011. PMID 16261859.
External links
[edit]- "Rhodococcus phenolicus". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
- Type strain of Rhodococcus phenolicus at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase