Methylovirgula

J.P. Euzéby: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature - Genus Methylovirgula

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Number of species cited in this file: 1
Number of subspecies cited in this file: 0

Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").

Methylovirgula Vorob'ev et al. 2009, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Methylovirgula ligni Vorob'ev et al. 2009.
Etymology: N.L. n. methylum (from French méthyle, back-formation from French méthylène, coined from Gr. n. methu, wine and Gr. n. hulê, wood), the methyl group; N.L. pref. methylo-, pertaining to the methyl radical; L. fem. n. virgula, a little rod; N.L. fem. n. Methylovirgula, methyl-using rod-shaped cell.
Reference: VOROB'EV (A.V.), DE BOER (W.), FOLMAN (L.B.), BODELIER (P.L.E.), DORONINA (N.V.), SUZINA (N.E.), TROTSENKO (Y.A.) and DEDYSH (S.N.): Methylovirgula ligni gen. nov., sp. nov., an obligately acidophilic, facultatively methylotrophic bacterium with a highly divergent mxaF gene. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2009, 59, 2538-2545.
Original article in IJSEM Online

Methylovirgula ligni Vorob'ev et al. 2009, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus).
Type strain (see also StrainInfo.net): strain BW863 = DSM 19998 = NCIMB 14408.
GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain: FM252034.
Etymology: L. gen. n. ligni, of wood, referring to the isolation of known strains from wood material.
Reference: VOROB'EV (A.V.), DE BOER (W.), FOLMAN (L.B.), BODELIER (P.L.E.), DORONINA (N.V.), SUZINA (N.E.), TROTSENKO (Y.A.) and DEDYSH (S.N.): Methylovirgula ligni gen. nov., sp. nov., an obligately acidophilic, facultatively methylotrophic bacterium with a highly divergent mxaF gene. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2009, 59, 2538-2545.
Original article in IJSEM Online