Pseudoalteromonas

SEM image of Pseudoalteromonas atlantica, copyright Chandra Carpenter.

Belongs within: Alteromonadaceae.

Pseudoalteromonas is a genus of marine aerobic, Gram-negative, non-fermentative, polarly flagellated genera defined primarily on the basis of phylogenetic analysis (Romanenko et al. 2003).

<==Pseudoalteromonas
    |  i. s.: P. mariniglutinosa Romanenko, Zhukova et al. 2003 [=‘Pseudomonas marinoglutinosa’]KI03
    |         P. phenolica Isnansetyo & Kamei 2003KI03
    |--P. prydzensisRZ03
    |--P. tunicataKI03
    `--+--P. denitrificansKI03 [=Alteromonas denitrificansIM01]
       `--+--+--P. luteoviolaceaKI03 [=Alteromonas luteoviolaceaIM01]
          |  `--+--P. rubraKI03 [=Alteromonas rubraIM01]
          |     `--+--P. peptidolyticaKI03
          |        `--+--P. flavipulchraKI03
          |           |--P. maricalorisKI03
          |           `--P. piscicidaKI03 [=Pseudomonas piscicidaIM01]
          `--+--+--P. aurantiaKI03 [=Alteromonas aurantiaIM01]
             |  `--P. citreaKI03 [=Alteromonas citreaIM01]
             `--+--+--P. antarcticaRZ03
                |  `--‘P. gracilis’KI03
                `--+--+--P. undinaRZ03 [=Alteromonas undinaIM01]
                   |  `--+--P. haloplanktisRZ03 [=Alteromonas haloplanktisIM01; incl. A. marinopraesensIM01]
                   |     `--P. nigrifaciensRZ03 [=Alteromonas nigrifaciensIM01]
                   `--+--+--P. distinctaRZ03 [=Alteromonas distinctaIM01]
                      |  `--P. elyakoviiRZ03 [=Alteromonas elyakoviiIM01]
                      `--+--+--P. issachenkoniiRZ03
                         |  `--P. tetraodonisRZ03 [=Alteromonas tetraodonisIM01, P. haloplanktis ssp. tetraodonisIM01]
                         `--+--P. carrageenovoraRZ03 [=Alteromonas carrageenovoraIM01]
                            `--+--P. espejianaRZ03 [=Alteromonas espejianaIM01]
                               `--+--P. agarivorans Romanenko, Zhukova et al. 2003RZ03
                                  `--P. atlanticaRZ03 [=Alteromonas atlanticaIM01]

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[IM01] Ivanova, E. P., & V. V. Mikhaylov. 2001. A new famil, Alteromonadaceae fam. nov., including marine Proteobacteria of the genera Alteromonas, Pseudoalteromonas, Idiomarina, and Colwellia. Mikrobiologiya 70 (1): 15–23.

[KI03] Kobayashi, T., C. Imada, A. Hiraishi, H. Tsujibo, K. Miyamoto, N. Hamada & E. Watanabe. 2003. Pseudoalteromonas sagamiensis sp. nov., a marine bacterium that produces protease inhibitors. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 53: 1807–1811.

[RZ03] Romanenko, L. A., N. V. Zhukova, M. Rhode, A. M. Lysenko, V. M. Mikhailov & E. Stackebrandt. 2003. Pseudoalteromonas agarivorans sp. nov., a novel marine agarolytic bacterium. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 53: 125–131.

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