Natronobacterium

In taxonomy, Natronobacterium is a genus of the Halobacteriaceae.[1] A member of the domain Archaea, it is both an extreme halophile and alkaliphile, thriving at an optimum saline concentration of 20% and optimum pH of 10.

Natronobacterium
Scientific classification
Domain:
Archaea
Kingdom:
Euryarchaeota
Phylum:
Euryarchaeota
Class:
Halobacteria
Order:
Halobacteriales
Family:
Halobacteriaceae
Genus:
Natronobacterium

Tindall et al. 1984 emend. Tindall 2001[1]
Species

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

Further reading

Scientific journals
  • Oren A; Ventosa A (2000). "International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Halobacteriaceae. Minutes of the meetings, 16 August 1999, Sydney, Australia". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 50: 1405–1407. doi:10.1099/00207713-50-3-1405. PMID 10843089.
  • Tindall BJ; Ross HNM; Grant WD (1984). "Natronobacterium gen. nov. and Natronococcus gen. nov., two new genera of haloalkaliphilic archaebacteria". Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 5: 41–57. doi:10.1016/S0723-2020(84)80050-8.

Scientific books
  • Gibbons, NE (1974). "Family V. Halobacteriaceae fam. nov.". In RE Buchanan; NE Gibbons (eds.). Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology (8th ed.). Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Co.
  • Madigan, Michael T., et al. Brock Biology of Microorganisms. 13th ed. Benjamin Cummings: San Francisco, 2012. p. 38.

Scientific databases


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