Reclassification of ‘Thiobacillus prosperus’ Huber and Stetter 1989 as Acidihalobacter prosperus gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Ectothiorhodospiraceae

Analysis of phylogenomic metrics of a recently released draft genome sequence of the halotolerant, acidophile ‘Thiobacillus prosperus’ DSM 5130 indicates that it is not a member of the genus Thiobacillus within the class Betaproteobacteria as originally proposed. Based on data from 16S rRNA gene phy...

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Main Authors: Pablo Cárdenas, J., Ortiz, R., Norris, P., Watkin, Elizabeth, Holmes, D.
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37101