''Thauera'' is a genus of
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 ...
bacteria
Bacteria (; singular: bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell. They constitute a large domain of prokaryotic microorganisms. Typically a few micrometres in length, bacteria were am ...
in the family ''
Zoogloeaceae'' of the order ''
Rhodocyclales
The ''Rhodocyclales'' are an order of the class '' Betaproteobacteria'' in the phylum "''Pseudomonadota''".Garrity, George M.; Brenner, Don J.; Krieg, Noel R.; Staley, James T. (eds.) (2005). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Volume Tw ...
'' of the ''
Betaproteobacteria
Betaproteobacteria are a class of Gram-negative bacteria, and one of the eight classes of the phylum Pseudomonadota (synonym Proteobacteria).
The ''Betaproteobacteria'' are a class comprising over 75 genera and 400 species of bacteria. Together, ...
''. The genus is named for the German microbiologist
Rudolf Thauer Rudolf K. Thauer (born October 5, 1939) is a biologist and a retired professor of microbiology and heads the Emeritus group at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg. Thauer taught in the faculty of Biology at the Universit ...
. Most species of this genus are motile by flagella and are mostly rod-shaped.
[Garrity, George M.; Brenner, Don J.; Krieg, Noel R.; Staley, James T. (eds.) (2005). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Volume Two: The Proteobacteria, Part C: The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria. New York, New York: Springer. .] The species occur in wet soil and polluted freshwater.
Species
The genus includes the following species:
* ''
T. aminoaromatica''
* ''
T. aromatica''
* ''
T. butanivorans''
* ''
T. chlorobenzoica''
* ''
T. humireducens''
* ''
T. linaloolentis''
* ''
T. mechernichensis''
* ''
T. phenylacetica''
* ''
T. propionica''
* ''
T. selenatis''
* ''
T. terpenica''
References
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Zoogloeaceae
Rhodocyclales
Betaproteobacteria
Bacteria genera