Schinkia azotoformans
| Schinkia azotoformans | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Bacillati |
| Phylum: | Bacillota |
| Class: | Bacilli |
| Order: | Caryophanales |
| Family: | Bacillaceae |
| Genus: | Schinkia |
| Species: | S. azotoformans |
| Binomial name | |
| Schinkia azotoformans (Pichinoty et al. 1983 ex Pichinoty et al. 1976) Gupta et al. 2020 | |
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Schinkia azotoformans is a species of motile, rod-shaped, endospore-forming, denitrifying bacterium. It was originally isolated from soil and described as Bacillus azotoformans.[1] The species can grow anaerobically using electron acceptors including nitrate, nitrite and nitrous oxide, which it reduces during denitrification. The specific epithet azotoformans means "nitrogen-forming". The type strain is strain 1T (= ATCC 29788T = DSM 1046T = CCM 2849T).
In 2020, the species was transferred to the newly established genus Schinkia on the basis of phylogenomic and comparative genomic analyses.[2] S. azotoformans is the type species of the genus.
References
- ↑ Pichinoty, F.; De Barjac, H.; Mandel, M.; Asselineau, J. (1983). "Description of Bacillus azotoformans sp. nov". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 33 (3): 660–662. doi:10.1099/00207713-33-3-660.
- ↑ Gupta, Radhey S.; Patel, Sudip; Saini, Navneet; Chen, Shu (2020). "Robust demarcation of 17 distinct Bacillus species clades, proposed as novel Bacillaceae genera, by phylogenomics and comparative genomic analyses". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 70 (11): 5753–5798. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.004475. PMID 33112222.