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Appeared in: Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria

Editor list: Whitman, WB

Publication year: 2015

eISBN: 978-1-118-96060-8

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00841

Abstract: 

Pseud.ami.no.bac' ter. Gr. adj. pseudos false; M.L. aminobacter generic name of a bacterium; Pseudaminobacter false aminobacters.

Proteobacteria / Alphaproteobacteria / Rhizobiales / Phyllobacteriaceae / Pseudaminobacter

Rods 0.5–0.8 × 1.0–2.0 μm, with rounded ends. Motile. Gram negative. Aerobic, having a strictly respiratory type of metabolism with oxygen as the terminal electron acceptor. Oxidase and catalase positive. Colonies on nutrient agar at 25°C are circular, entire, slightly convex and smooth, glistening, and pale beige. Contains ubiquinone Q-10. Major polyamines are spermidine, sym-homospermidine, and putrescine. Polar lipid pattern characterized by nearly equal amounts of phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidyldimethylethanolamne, phosphatidylmonomethylethanolamine, phosphatidylethanolamine, and diphosphatidylglycerol. The major cellular fatty acid is C_18:1. The hydroxy acids include the hydroxylated fatty acid C_{15:0 iso 3OH}. Isolated from wastewater and river water.

The mol% G + C of the DNA is: 62.9–63.9.

Type species: Pseudaminobacter salicylatoxidans Kämpfer, Müller, Mau, Neef, Auling, Busse, Osborn and Stolz 1999, 894.

Harvard Citation style: Kämpfer, P. (2015) Pseudaminobacter, in Whitman, W. (ed.) Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00841

APA Citation style: Kämpfer, P. (2015). Pseudaminobacter. In Whitman, W. (Ed.), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00841