''Gemmatimonas aurantiaca'' is a
Gram-negative
Gram-negative bacteria are bacteria that do not retain the crystal violet stain used in the Gram staining method of bacterial differentiation. They are characterized by their cell envelopes, which are composed of a thin peptidoglycan cell wa ...
, aerobic,
polyphosphate
Polyphosphates are salts or esters of polymeric oxyanions formed from tetrahedral PO4 (phosphate) structural units linked together by sharing oxygen atoms. Polyphosphates can adopt linear or a cyclic ring structures. In biology, the polyphosphate e ...
-accumulating micro-organism.
It is a
Gram-negative
Gram-negative bacteria are bacteria that do not retain the crystal violet stain used in the Gram staining method of bacterial differentiation. They are characterized by their cell envelopes, which are composed of a thin peptidoglycan cell wa ...
, rod-shaped aerobe, with type strain T-27
T (=JCM 11422
T =DSM 14586
T). It replicates by
budding
Budding or blastogenesis is a type of asexual reproduction in which a new organism develops from an outgrowth or bud due to cell division at one particular site. For example, the small bulb-like projection coming out from the yeast cell is kno ...
.
References
Further reading
*Whitman, William B., et al., eds. Bergey's manual® of systematic bacteriology. Vol. 4. Springer, 2012.
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External links
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LPSNType strain of ''Gemmatimonas aurantiaca'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Gemmatimonadota
Bacteria described in 2003
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